Hi! 👋
I'm Gram Liu.
Developer. Engineer. Tech Enthusiast.
I'm Gram Liu.
Developer. Engineer. Tech Enthusiast.
About Me
Hi! I'm Gram and I build things, from web apps to full stack to IoT. I'm a senior at Carnegie Mellon University pursuing a major in Electrical and Computer Engineering. I'm a big fan of technology and how it changes the way we tackle everything from payments to health care, consistently pushing the boundaries of what we think is possible.
Outside of tech, I also really enjoy cooking! I try to do the food justice by honing the art of food photography over on Instagram.
Outside of tech, I also really enjoy cooking! I try to do the food justice by honing the art of food photography over on Instagram.
What I've Done
Stripe
Dashlabs.ai
CMU HCII
ScottyLabs
Dashboard Philippines
Software Engineering Intern
May - Aug 2022
- Built a first-of-a-kind CI testing framework for the Stripe Terminal Readers, emulating the physical readers with Android on CI for automated testing
- Fixed flakiness on CI that two engineers tried to solve unsuccessfully over the past 12 months, improving reliability of a core test suite from 80% to 100%
- Drove collaboration across 5 teams to scope out a key problem in the development of future emulator tests, identified potential solutions, and determined concrete steps for the fix
- Created various developer productivity improvements such as emulator crash detection, concurrent log streaming, and faster failure detection, bringing down test time-to-failure from 1 hour to 20 minutes
Things I've Built
🩺 Medisure.ai
Personalized assistant for medical insurance
🏆 Top 3, Best Use of Google Cloud@Pennapps XXI.A consolidated suite of deep-learning powered NLP tools powered by GPT-3 to help demystify medical insurance and generate insurance claim denial appeals.
🌈 Illuminate Designer
Lighting Sequence Designer
A lighting sequence designer for theRandy Pausch Bridgeat CMU. This was used during Illuminate 2021 to enable students to create lighting designs that were then displayed on the bridge.
Other Past Projects
Pol.LitPolitical Literacy and Transparency Platform🏆 Best NLP Hack@HackMIT 2022.
Platform to improve political literacy and accountability in the Philippines. Used OCR, Pegasus, and BERT to scan and summarize PDF bills from the Philippine Congress. Scraped members of legislation and built profiles based on activity and semantic tags of bills authored.
Platform to improve political literacy and accountability in the Philippines. Used OCR, Pegasus, and BERT to scan and summarize PDF bills from the Philippine Congress. Scraped members of legislation and built profiles based on activity and semantic tags of bills authored.
2022
Parking FinderComputer Vision Powered Parking Spot Finder🏆 Best IoT Hack@HackMIT 2021.
Web app that identifies parking spots from CCTV footage using OpenCV
Web app that identifies parking spots from CCTV footage using OpenCV
2021
CMUEatsDining Location Status @ CMUOne-stop-shop for finding out on-campus dining availabilities with over 1,000 weekly unique users.2022
TartanHacks WebsitePromotional Website for TartanHacksBuilt the promotional website for TartanHacks2021 - 2023
TartanHacks Registration SystemHackathon Application PortalWeb app where hackers sign up to enter TartanHacks, CMU's largest hackathon2021
TartanHacks HelixBackend for the TartanHacks Software SuiteSpearheaded planning, design, and development of the backend for the TartanHacks Software Suite, encompassing registration, scheduling, project submission, and live event logistics2021
Craft112Python Adventure GameA Terraria-inspired adventure game. Fight and mine to survive against enemies in a randomly generated world. Created using Pygame.2019
UnawaCommunication Assistance AppUnawa (Filipino word for "understanding") is an Android app designed to help people with communication disabilities through OCR, Sign Language Recognition, and Speech-to-Text Recognition.2018
SuroyPublic Transportation Tracker App🏆 2nd Place, Hack4PH Hack to Play, and Best Use of Technology. Suroy (Cebuano word for "explore") is an Android app that helps commuters track public utility vehicles in the Philippines while promoting visibility of small businesses along their commute.
2018
DaloyDrone and Submarine Field Research Tool🏆 1st Place, InnoBox Project Philippines. Daloy (Filipino word for "flow" 🌊) is a drone and submarine-based research tool that remotely demonstrates real-time changes in environmental parameters like air and water pressure for educational or research purposes.
2018
GripAidGrip Exoskeleton and Biometrics TrackerGripAid is a wearable grip exoskeleton that assists people with neurodegenerative diseases. It also displays heart pulse biometrics, since this demographic is often at high risk of cardiovascular diseases. Frame was 3D printed, mechanism powered by Arduino.
2018