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Beyang Liu

Beyang Liu

CTO @Sourcegraph

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Beyang Liu is CTO and cofounder of Sourcegraph. Prior to Sourcegraph, Beyang was a software engineer at Palantir Technologies, where he developed new data analysis software on a small, customer-facing team working with Fortune 500 companies. Beyang studied Computer Science at Stanford, where he published research in probabilistic graphical models and computer vision at the Stanford AI Lab and thoroughly enjoyed his compilers course.

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Abstract

DevX: History of Code Search

What is code search? Code search is an important dev tool for some of the largest and most highly respected companies and open-source organizations, but many developers have never used it before. We'll go over the history and evolution of code search, why it's becoming more popular now, and how it might help you and your collaborators become a better team of software engineers.