johnnyliang

currently invested in systems & infra + becoming the best version of myself

based
ann arbor, michigan
studying
cs + ee, university of michigan
currently
software @ maxel lab
reach
jonliang@umich.edu
no. 05
selected work08 entries
01

maxel lab

2026—
fellow

contributing to LLM training

02

synthesis.trade

2025—
core engineering

prediction-market terminals and the ci/cd behind them + mcp

03

magic bot

2020—24
40k concurrent users

multipurpose discord bot w/ oauth dashboard, redis, mongo, sharding, retired in 2024

04

helivox

2023—25
lead developer

nonprofit tooling/web for 75+ volunteers across two states

05

mmgrep

2026
video search

indexes frames, dedupes with perceptual hashing, caches by content hash. ~59ms cold queries

06

funnymic

2026
audio tooling

a lightweight virtual audio cable, which the useful parts of voicemod and equalizer apo without the rest

07

contextos

2026
side project

context-window management for claude code. fun to build; better tools took over though :(

08

freelance

2020—
16 clients

websites for small businesses

off the clock

i like taking videos, photos, basketball, volleyball, valorant, poker, music, lifting, and racing - ask me about anything!

now
reading
Little Book of Sephamores
listening
building
The best pkm ever made
shooting
Travels
avoiding
Watching the Odyssey
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