Chengyin Liu

Building software for people.

Work

Senior Software Engineer @ Airbnb
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  • Early lead for Airbnb Plus.
  • Developed Airbnb iOS app for hosts.
Lead Software Engineer @ Place / Backplane
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Lead the frontend development. Stack: React, Babel, Webpack.
Software Engineer Intern @ WePay
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Designed and implemented a store that is embeddable in any page, which made to the TechCrunch and drew 300 new sellers for WePay on the launch day alone.
Software Engineer Intern @ Wandoujia
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Built a dashboard using HTML, CSS and JavaScript as the front-end developer for Wandoujia, the missing managing software for Android phones.

Personal Projects

WhatFont
The easiest way to inspect fonts on webpages. Serving 600,000+ users weekly.
WhatFont App
Same WhatFont experience, now available on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.

Archived

Bamboo App and Extension
Save and share web highlights through Bamboo's iOS App, Chrome extension and Safari extension.
AlbumColors.js
Create a color pallete from an image in JavaScript. Inspired by iTunes 11's album view.
Earth Pulse
Track earthquakes with social media.
UIUC CS 473 Grader Helper
A Python script to help CS 473 UIUC grader smoothen the grading process by auto handling homework files.
UIUC Course Open API
Provide an open API for UIUC hackers as an infrastructure to build UIUC hacks.
Innovation Works Website
Built the official website for the most important Chinese tech incubator.

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