Hunter Liu
Software Engineer at Khan Academy
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolHunter Liu is a software engineer in Mountain View with nine years of hands-on experience building learner-centered products, currently contributing to Khan Academy's engineering work. Trained as a mechanical engineer (BS and MEng from UPenn) with robotics coursework at Columbia, he blends hardware-minded problem solving with full-stack software skills from internships and freelance projects. His background includes porting backend Python to Go, React/Redux frontend work, and building education-focused features and tooling informed by direct research experience running experiments with young learners. Outside of core engineering, he has led community-facing roles—resident advisor and climbing wall setter—that reflect strong operational reliability and user-focused empathy. This mix of education technology experience, cross-disciplinary training, and practical product delivery makes him adept at turning pedagogical needs into scalable software solutions.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering & Biology, Software Engineering & Biology at Online CoursesRobotics Technology/Technician, Robotics Technology/Technician at Columbia University in the City of New YorkBachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (18)
typescript9
react9
expressjs8
ui-components7
nodejs6
api6
docx6
browser6
react-components6
antd6
angular5
ui-design5
javascript5
microsoft4
language-design4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jlnrd/Tooth_Brushing
Apr 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:63 pushes in 2 years
Hunter690/CV
Dec 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch, 43 comments in 2 years
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.