Chengyin Liu

About Me

I am an engineer at Backplane. We are hiring!

I studied Computer Science in University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

AlbumColors.js: Dec, 2012 -; A JavaScript script to pick 3 colors from an image to create a pallete for background and text colors. Inspired by iTunes 11.
WhatFont Bookmarklet: March, 2011 -; The easiest way to inspect fonts on webpages.
Earth Pulse: November, 2009; Track earthquakes with social media.
UIUC CS 473 Grader Helper: January, 2011; A Python script to help CS 473 UIUC grader smoothen the grading process by auto handling homework files.
UIUC Course Open API: January, 2011 -; Provide an open API for UIUC hackers as an infrastructure to build UIUC hacks.
Innovation Works Website: July, 2010 - October, 2010; Built the official website for the most important Chinese tech incubator.
Wandoujia: May, 2010 - July, 2010; Built a dashboard using HTML, CSS and JavaScript as the front-end developer for Wandoujia, the missing managing software for Android phones on desktop-side.