Christopher Liu
Business Owner at Yuarcuun Technologies
Bethel, Alaska, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Liu is a software entrepreneur and language technologist with eight years of experience building digital tools to revitalize Alaska Native languages, from online dictionaries and elder video archives to interactive Yup'ik and Iñupiaq sentence builders and games. As founder of Yuarcuun Technologies and former project lead at the Alaska Native Heritage Center, he combines full‑stack development skills with community-centered design to deliver culturally grounded learning systems used in schools and archives. He has taught a university course on designing Alaska Native language learning tools and previously applied his technical chops at NASA JPL and in bioinformatics automation, reflecting a strong foundation in engineering and scientific problem solving. Based in Bethel, Alaska and known by his Yup'ik name Egalaaq, he blends local cultural insight with Stanford‑level technical training to create practical, impactful language preservation software.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of WashingtonB.A., Honors in Cognitive Sciences, Minor in Neuroscience, B.A., Honors in Cognitive Sciences, Minor in Neuroscience at Rice UniversityM.S., Electrical Engineering, M.S., Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
central yup'ik, English
Github Skills (7)
fluentui10
internationalization10
localization10
fluent-api10
translation10
voice4
open-data4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Temigo/yuarcuun-api
Jul 2018 - Jan 2022
Contributions:104 pushes in 3 years 7 months
cwtliu/yupik-mt
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:86 commits, 40 pushes, 1 comment in 2 months
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