Jonathan Liang

I like making computers do stuff. Currently on the core engineering team at Synthesis.trade building prediction market terminals. CS + EE at Michigan. I've been freelancing since 2020, built a Discord bot that served 40k+ users, and I'll probably keep shipping stuff nobody asked for.

RoleStudent, Engineer, Freelancer
LocationAnn Arbor, MI
FocusSystems, Web Infra, Prediction Markets, Comp Bio
EducationB.S.E CS + EE Minor @ UMich (2029)
LanguagesC, C++, Rust, TypeScript, Python, Solidity
StackNext.js, PyTorch, Docker, gRPC, Redis, AWS

Projects

  • Synthesis.trade — prediction market terminals — current
  • Magic Bot — 40k+ concurrent Discord users at peak
  • Helivox — nonprofit, 75+ volunteers, Next.js from scratch
  • FiveHive — free AP prep, because CollegeBoard charges enough
  • TeamsCode — competitive programming contests
  • SemComp — 86% text classification accuracy, no neural nets
  • Celiac Disease Research — CNNs on gene expression data, GIDAS honorable mention
  • MIT BWSI — assisted walking cane for the visually impaired
  • Crypto Risk Sim — GBM + Monte Carlo, 200k paths, VaR analysis

Older/smaller projects, hackathon stuff, and source code on GitHub.

Competitions & Awards

USACO Gold 2022Google Code Jam Round 2 2022Honorable Mention, UMich GIDAS 2024

Links

  • Blog — film, music, linux disasters, rants
  • GitHub — source code, contributions, older projects
  • Gallery — photos
  • LinkedIn — the professional one
  • Resume — pdf

Outside of code

Basketball · Volleyball · F1 · Lifting · Photography · Classical Music (Tchaikovsky, Bruckner, Bruch) · Violin · Spark Electric Motorcycle · Michigan Blockchain

Want to talk? jonliang@umich.edu · Discord: hurb7444

johnnyliang.me