Chih-yen Liao
Business Operations Analyst
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJulia Liao is a Finance and Information Systems graduate from the University of Washington with 12 years of practical experience blending financial analysis and data engineering skills. She excels in financial modeling, forecasting, FP&A processes, and translating complex datasets into actionable business insights using Advanced Excel, SQL, and Python. Her internship at Genemod and simulation with the New York Jobs CEO Council sharpened her investor due diligence, go-to-market analysis, and customer segmentation capabilities within biotech SaaS. Uncommonly for a finance-focused professional, she contributes to high-profile open-source projects (including work enabling Fuchsia support in Google’s syzkaller and ClusterFuzz), demonstrating systems-level thinking and CI/CD automation experience. Based in the Greater Seattle Area and fluent in English and Mandarin, she combines meticulous execution—delivering tasks with a focus on 100% accuracy—with strong collaboration to drive measurable business impact. Julia is targeting entry-level finance, FP&A, or financial analyst roles where her cross-disciplinary technical background and strategic orientation add immediate value.
13 years of coding experience
Associate's degree, Business Administration and Management, General, Associate's degree, Business Administration and Management, General at Bellevue CollegeBachelor of Arts - BA, Finance and Information Systems, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Finance and Information Systems at UW Foster School of Business
Chinese, English
Github Skills (18)
libfuzzer10
python10
qemu10
testing10
cicd10
kernel10
build-automation10
fuzzing10
fuchsia10
dockers9
linux9
docker9
automation9
go9
automations9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
google/clusterfuzz
Apr 2019 - Nov 2022
Scalable fuzzing infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 25 commits, 37 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Chih-yen made significant contributions to the ClusterFuzz infrastructure, specifically focusing on integrating Fuchsia as a target platform for fuzzing. Their work includes implementing initial Fuchsia support, setting up QEMU VMs, and enabling corpus syncing. Furthermore, the user addressed test and log capturing issues within the Fuchsia environment, ensuring the correct execution of the fuzzing tasks, while also adding the capability for testcase minimization.
fuzzingsecuritystabilityvulnerabilities
google/syzkaller
Feb 2018 - Feb 2019
syzkaller is an unsupervised coverage-guided kernel fuzzer
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & System Architect
DevOps Engineer & System ArchitectContributions:22 commits, 60 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Chih-yen primarily contributed to the fuchsia target within the syzkaller project. Their contributions involved modifying build configurations, updating dependencies, and adjusting QEMU arguments. They fixed build errors, refined the build process for Fuchsia, updated file locations and paths, and ensured the project builds successfully with the latest Fuchsia APIs. The user's work also included modifying the CI/CD process for the Fuchsia target, and updating paths and files within the project.
fuzzerkernellinuxfuzz-testingfuzzing
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