Kelvin Liu
Founding Engineer at Beacons
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorKelvin Liu is a founding engineer with 11 years of software experience, currently building product and platform at Beacons after a progressive engineering career at Nordstrom. A member of NYU Shanghai’s inaugural cohort, he blends a global, research-informed perspective—having studied across four continents and published academic work—with hands-on engineering and design sensibilities. Kelvin helped launch HackShanghai and a student startup community, reflecting his knack for organizing technical communities and turning ideas into events and teams. He has moved up through full-stack roles into senior engineering and founding-stage responsibilities, shipping customer-facing systems at scale. Based in Seattle, he pairs product-minded engineering with a strong design instinct, often bridging UX and backend concerns in early-stage products. Notably, his background in research and community-building gives him an unusual edge for roles that require both technical depth and startup stewardship.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (96)
emoji10
slugify10
country-flags10
country-codes10
cli9
iso9
command-line-tool9
binaries9
unicode9
homebrew9
flags9
administration9
serverless-plugin8
react8
macos8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
thekelvinliu/generator-es6-express
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:66 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
thekelvinliu/country-code-emoji
Jun 2016 - May 2021
convert country codes (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) to corresponding emoji flags (unicode regional indicator symbols)
Contributions:36 commits, 18 PRs, 20 pushes in 5 years
iso-3166-1iso-codesregional-indicator-symbolscountry-flagsemoji
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