Hey there! My name's Andrew Liu. I'm a software engineer/angel investor/event host/failed comedian/volunteer living in the Washington DC area.

About me

Professional

1. I work at Google on the Privacy Sandbox within Chrome. In the past, I handled authentication at Google (i.e. the login page) and was the former maintainer of Google Authenticator.
2. I left Google for a few years to do startups. During my time at Scale AI the company became a unicorn, and I founded their machine learning infrastructure team.
3. I graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Maryland in computer science. While a student, I also published some security research.

Personal

• I played piano for 12 years as a kid before stopping in college. Recently I've started picking it back up.
• In high school, I played Go competitively. I peaked at 1 kyu before stopping in college.
• I currently train Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and dabbled in Muay Thai back in the day.
• Occasionally I perform improv and standup comedy. There's a video of me performing a set at the DC Improv floating somewhere on the Internet.
• I'm the vice president of the Asian Pacific Alumni Network for the UMD. (If you're an Asian UMD alum or know of anyone who is, please hit me up.)

Reading

Here are some links, depending on what you're looking for:

• How I built a bootleg ChatGPT (before ChatGPT existed).
• My reflections on leaving Google for a startup.
• All of my book reviews.
• My 2023 annual review.
• If you're OSINT'ing me, please watch this Instagram Reel.
• What am I currently up to? See the now page.

Open Invitation

1. Don't be a passive reader.
2. Don't be shy. Share your thoughts.
3. Feel free to just say hello. I won't bite.

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