Summary
Alan Liao is a software developer and CS undergraduate at UT Dallas with 8 years of hands-on experience building full-stack and cloud-native systems across industries from aviation to payments and IoT. He has shipped production features at American Airlines and NCR, implementing TypeScript/Node.js services, Google Cloud Firestore-backed APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and automated quality gates. His background blends applied AI/ML research (resilient distributed DNNs) with practical product work—building an AI-enabled security notification app and improving IoT app deployment and testing. Comfortable across front-end, back-end, and infrastructure, he’s delivered MVPs in Agile teams and automated complex upgrade tooling, showing a bias toward reliable, testable systems. Based in Euless, Texas, he pairs academic curiosity with production discipline and a track record of turning research ideas into operational software.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas
Trinity High School
Harwood Junior High School
Meadow Creek Elementary School
Chinese, Spanish, Mandarin, English