Daniel Liu

About Me I recently graduated from Northwestern University with a bachelor's degree in computer science. I love working on personal and open source programming projects, as well as wasting time tinkering with my configs. When I'm not coding, you'll likely find me running on the roads or the track.

Contact

daniel-a-liu at outlook dot com

GitHub

Education

Northwestern University Evanston, IL B.S. Computer Science, 2025

Skills

Programming Languages: C++, Go, Rust, Zig

Experience

Incoming Associate Engineer MathWorks | Natick, MA – Engineering Development Group

Peer Mentor Northwestern University | Evanston, IL Jan. 2025 – Mar. 2025 CS 321 Programming Languages

Software Engineer Intern CDK Global | Hoffman Estates, IL Jun. 2024 – Aug. 2024 Full stack web development using Vue.js, Ruby on Rails, and PostgreSQL

Projects

Screenshot of compiler competition results

Almost-C Compiler A compiler that translates a C-like language into x86-64 assembly code, built from scratch in C++. Uses advanced compilation techniques including register allocation, instruction selection, and optimizations such as constant propagation and dead-code elimination. Achieved 3rd place out of 18 participants in the end-of-quarter compiler performance competition.

Screenshot of output with and without CAT LLVM pass

CAT LLVM Pass An LLVM pass written in C++ that optimizes programs that use the CAT language. Efficiently performs reaching definition and liveness analyses. Reduces execution cost by eliminating CAT API calls via constant optimizations, function inlining, and loop peeling.

Strava Wx Automatically fetches weather data from OpenWeatherMap and adds it to new outdoor Strava activities. Written in Go and deployed on AWS Lambda, Amazon SQS, and Amazon DynamoDB.

Purple Hours A web application that facilitates office hour scheduling for Northwestern students and TAs. Built with React and Firebase. Used agile development practices to iterate and deliver the app with a team of 7 developers.