Vinnie Liu
CEO at CLEAR (clearme.com)
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVinnie Liu is CEO of Bishop Fox with 11 years of hands-on experience leading a prominent security consulting firm from San Francisco. He blends executive leadership with deep technical chops, having contributed to open-source backend work such as enhancing a Slippi spectator server—implementing ENet-based streaming, NAT traversal, lockless FIFO queues, and JSON/base64 event payloads. Vinnie serves on multiple advisory and security boards including CLEAR, AppOmni, Elevate Security, Mod N Labs, and the University of Advancing Technology, signaling trusted expertise across enterprise security and identity domains. He is known for translating complex security challenges into practical, auditable solutions while maintaining an engineer-first approach to product and service delivery. Colleagues describe him as a strategic operator who still digs into code and architecture when it matters most.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BSE Computer Science, Psychology, BSE Computer Science, Psychology at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (6)
json10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
networking10
base64-encoding9
git3
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
project-slippi/Ishiiruka
May 2020 - Jan 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 29 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Vinnie implemented and enhanced the Slippi spectator server feature, adding functionality to stream game and menu events. This involved opening a local ENet server, sending game data in JSON format, and handling NAT traversal. Key contributions include the creation of a system to manage and transmit game and menu events and incorporating base64 encoding for event payloads. Furthermore, the user refactored the spectator server to eliminate thread blocking and used a lockless FIFO queue.
altf4/SmashBot
May 2020 - Nov 2022
The AI that beats you at Melee
Contributions:275 commits, 25 PRs, 380 pushes in 2 years 7 months
aivideo-gamemeleesmash-bros
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