About Me

I'm Xusheng "Fred" Liu — born and raised in Beijing, China, and shaped by a career that has taken me across three cities and two continents. I came to the U.S. for college, earning a Bachelor of Science degree with double major in Computer Science and Mathematics at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana, before joining Citrix full-time.

I spent my first three years post-graduation at Citrix's headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, building cloud-native SaaS products across Azure, AWS, and GCP — from Infrastructure as Code tooling to FedRAMP compliance. In 2024 I relocated to Citrix's engineering branch in Nanjing, China, where I continue leading the same products while bridging U.S. and China engineering teams across time zones, languages, and working cultures.

This path has given me something I consider a genuine edge: fluency in cross-cultural collaboration. I'm equally at home running a technical design review in English with a U.S. product team and coordinating a sprint in Mandarin with a China-based engineering crew. I've learned that building high-trust relationships across cultures requires more than language — it takes empathy, patience, and an instinct for when to adapt and when to hold the line on engineering standards.

In August 2026 I'm starting my dual degree program MBA + Master of Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University — combining business strategy at Tepper with advanced engineering at the School of Computer Science.

Outside work I enjoy exploring AI tooling, contributing to open-source, and exploring the world. See what I get up to on my Blog page.

我是刘旭升（Fred）——生于北京，成长于北京，职业生涯跨越三座城市、两片大陆。我赴美求学，在印第安纳州特雷霍特的玫瑰-霍尔曼理工学院取得计算机科学与数学双学士学位，随后加入 Citrix 正式踏入职场。

毕业后的头三年，我在Citrix 位于佛罗里达州劳德代尔堡的总部工作，主导构建跨 Azure、AWS 和 GCP 的云原生 SaaS 产品，涵盖基础架构即代码工具与 FedRAMP 合规体系。2024 年，我调任Citrix 南京工程分部，继续主导同一系列产品，同时在不同时区、语言与工作文化之间，协调中美两地工程团队的高效协作。

这段经历让我积累了一项真正的核心优势：跨文化协作能力。我既能用英语主持美国产品团队的技术设计评审，也能用普通话带领中国工程团队推进冲刺。我深刻体会到，建立跨文化的高信任关系不只是语言问题——更需要同理心、耐心，以及在适应变化与坚守工程标准之间的精准判断。

2026 年 8 月，我将开启MBA + 软件工程硕士双学位项目，就读于卡内基梅隆大学——在 Tepper 商学院研习商业战略，同时在计算机学院深耕高级工程。

工作之外，我热衷于探索 AI 工具、参与开源社区，以及探索这个世界。欢迎访问博客，了解我的日常点滴。