Chengyin Liu

Seasoned software builder, team leader, and company founder.

Experience

Co-founder/CTO at Slab Jun 2017 — Dec 2023

Senior Software Engineer at Airbnb Apr 2016 — Jun 2017

Lead Software Engineer at Place / Backplane Feb 2012 — Apr 2016

Early Career

Software Engineer Intern at WePay Jul 2011 — Sep 2011

Designed and implemented a store that is embeddable in any page, which made to the TechCrunch and drew 300 new sellers for WePay on the launch day alone.

Software Engineer Intern at Wandoujia May 2010 — July 2010

Built a dashboard using HTML, CSS and JavaScript as the front-end developer for Wandoujia, the missing managing software for Android phones.

Personal Projects

AI Changelog Jun 2024 — Present

With the power of AI, generate product changelogs from GitHub issues, pull requests and commits.

WhatFont Apr 2011 — Present

A browser extension for inspecting typography designs.
Serving 3-million weekly users.

Archived Projects

Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Class of Winter 2011

Bachelor of Computer Science