# Jeff Liu

> fmr SWE Intern @ Xilinx, CS + Math @ Dartmouth, Production Lead @ DALI Lab

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jeffliu

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ DALI Lab
Jan 2020 – Present | Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
Designing and building digital products for external partners with the Digital Applied Learning and Innovation Lab at Dartmouth College.

Fall 2020: Pine Beetle Prediction (spbpredict.com)
— Built data warehouse for analysis of Southern Pine Beetle populations and the forest damage they cause with Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB, and R.
— Created idempotent and fast processes to ingest researchers’ data through CSV uploads and webhooks from ArcGIS Survey123.
— Optimized model runtime by >>10,000% and improved calculation accuracy to >98%.

Summer 2020: PeerTECH
— Created web app for mental illness peer support using React.js and Firebase.
— Architected user-friendly rich text editor and document management system for admins to distribute mental wellness resources.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Xilinx
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Interned in the Vivado Implementation Tools group.

— Building a timing-aware placer for VLSI physical design on Xilinx FPGAs.
— Integrating software into the Vivado design suite to improve timing performance along critical wiring paths.
— Performing static timing analysis alongside traditional FPGA placement algorithms using C++, Boost.
— Automating and scripting regression tests on nightly Vivado builds.

### Associate Consultant @ Dartmouth Consulting Group
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Hanover, New Hampshire
— Synthesizing solutions for local business and organizations
— Analyzing market and consumer trends, pinpointing best practices to generate actionable next steps

Projects worked on:
— DCG internal project - aggregating best practices for college consulting group operations, outreach, marketing, and branding.

### Teaching Assistant @ Dartmouth College
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Teaching Assistant with the Department of Computer Science for COSC50: Software Design and Implementation.
— Held office hours for 3 hours/week to help teach concepts in bash, C, and software development principles.
— Graded student assignments on design, testing, implementation, and documentation.

### Workshop Instructor @ Orenda Education Initiative
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
— Worked with 100+ teens and families to instill critical soft skills such as time and emotional management, habit building, conversational skills, and self-awareness through after school programs, teen summer programs, and standalone workshops. Earned Net Promoter Scores of 70+.
— Project managed, developed original curriculum for, and led instruction on our Life Goals workshop for teens; received record-high student feedback of 9.64/10.
— Created mailing list that was grown to over 400 subscribers, designed website widget for collecting emails.
— Scouted and reserved facilities for public capstone events.
— Researched and proposed plans to use franchising to scale up the business.
— Took ownership of execution and task check-in, soundboarded ideas, and provided constructive feedback during company meetings and retreats.

After I concluded my work with Orenda in 2019, it has evolved to focus on parent workshops instead of teen programs while keeping the same end goal and vision in mind.

### Cofounder @ Resonance Music
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
— Launched music instrument donation nonprofit during Quarter Zero Incubator.
— Developed business model for soliciting donations of old, no-longer-used music instruments and directing them toward low-income neighborhoods and schools that struggle to fund music education programs. Iterated model through customer interviews, surveys, and market research.
— Designed and built functional website for a pilot program implemented in St. Louis, MO.
— Led and facilitated team meetings and communication.
— Wrote script for pitch to investors and judges for a demo day presentation.

### Fellow @ Quarter Zero
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
Quarter Zero is a summer incubator for high school entrepreneurs and startups. I developed Resonance Music during my time at Quarter Zero.

### Marketing Specialist @ Blue Ocean Student Entrepreneurs Corp
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
— Publicized the Blue Ocean Competition, the largest student-run virtual entrepreneurship competition in the world, with over 500 submissions from 26 states and 8 countries annually.
— Ran marketing campaigns on social media and through local schools.
— Reached out to major companies and organizations for sponsorships to fund cash prizes for winners.

### Bookkeeper @ thecloset.sf
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
— Briefly managed financial records for a small streetwear wholesaler.
— Organized shipments of Anti Social Social Club apparel, Yeezy footwear, among other streetwear brands.
— Monitored revenue growth of thecloset.sf to over $100,000.


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Mathematics and Computer Science
Dartmouth College

### Lynbrook High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jeffzyliu

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Last updated: 2026-04-10