Howard Liu
Student
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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RockstarHoward Liu is a student-based software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience and a current focus on a master's in cybersecurity. Based in Pittsburgh, he brings full-stack chops demonstrated through meaningful open-source contributions to the widely used TEAMMATES education feedback platform, where he improved UI consistency, cross-screen behavior, and input handling for a smoother user experience. His work shows attention to detail—fixing messaging, load issues, and flaky tests—indicating a pragmatic approach to reliability and user-focused design. Combining long practical experience with formal cybersecurity studies, he is positioned to bridge secure engineering practices with polished front-end development. A notable non-obvious strength is his tendency to tackle subtle UX edge cases (like mouse-wheel interference on numeric inputs), which often go unnoticed but materially improve product quality.
10 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
93reputation
9kreached
3answers
8questions
Github Skills (20)
angular10
javascript10
teammates10
java9
css9
javas9
html9
testing8
ed255197
st7
control-systems6
database6
php6
lumen6
laravel6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
TEAMMATES/teammates
Feb 2022 - May 2022
This is the project website for the TEAMMATES feedback management tool for education
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:104 reviews, 18 commits, 23 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Howard primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and correcting functionality in the TEAMMATES project website. They implemented style consistency across different form elements, addressed display issues across varying screen widths, and updated testing snapshots. Additionally, the user fixed an incorrect message in the student home page and resolved loading issues on the student result page, contributing to overall user experience improvements. Furthermore, they were involved in preventing unintended mouse wheel events on numeric inputs, ensuring a more streamlined and user-friendly interaction with input fields.
cssjavascriptteammatesfeedback-systemsproject-website
Schrodinger-Box/backend
May 2020 - Oct 2021
Backend Server of Schrodinger's Box
Contributions:42 commits, 1 PR, 27 pushes in 1 year 5 months
boxbackend-serverbackendnodejss-box
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