About me

For employers

You can download my résumé [PDF]. I also have a casual listing of experience with more details. I feel this is a better description of my abilities than a formal résumé. Also I have provided a listing of courses I have taken so far.

Bio

Name: Victor Liu

Birthplace: Mountain View, CA

Residence: Avery House, Caltech, Pasadena, California, USA

Contact:

Status: I graduated in 2007 frome Caltech. I come from Cupertino, CA, famous for being home of Apple headquarters. I attended Monta Vista High School, and I have lived in California all my life (and therefore, gotten used to the weather).

Programming: I picked up programming a long time ago. Probably around when I was ten, in the days of console Compuserve dialup and 9600 baud modems. I missed the entire BBS craze and I got started with QBasic on a 486. I really wish I was born earlier to perhaps witness some of tail the golden days. Since then I learned Visual Basic, C++, Java, C, and assembly, in that order. Along the way I picked up some less popular languages like Javascript, Perl, PHP, shell, and Scheme.

I associate with the open source fans, and I try to release as much of what I write as I can. I don't because what I write is usually not all that useful or embarrassingly bad.

OS: I grew up on Mac OS in school, and I suppose that indoctrination has made me a Mac fanatic ever since. I own a IIsi, a couple SEs, and an original blueberry iBook. In some ways, they don't satisfy my desire to tinker and dig into the internals of a computer, but their elegance makes up for it.

Computers: I have a bit of the hoarder personality in that I don't like throwing things away, especially when it comes to electronics and such. I find it terribly wasteful to discard hardware which was made with so much time and effort, especially when it still works. Hence, the server which is serving this page is one of the old machines I took in as my own.

 

The random favorites

Color: green

Music: Almost everything, in this order (rock, jazz, pop, alternative, country, classical, and a bit of rap)

Linux distro: Gentoo

Preferred OS: Mac OS X

Oldie OS: Mac OS 7.5

CISC or RISC: RISC

Endian: big

Any more you want answered?