Hi, I'm Junhong 👋🏼

I ship full-stack, end-to-end AI products

I care about solving human-centric problems with code.
Lover of MSG, minor chords, and late-night hypotheticals.

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RAG + Ambient AI (Jul - Aug 2025)

Lightweight electron app with live transcription, memory, and a mini-browser for deep web links. Sees what you see, hears what you hear, works wherever you do.

About Me

About Me

  • 🎓 Computer Science @ Columbia
  • 💻 2+ YOE in software development
  • 🍎 Based in New York City
  • 🍳 Avid home chef, thrifter of all things vintage
  • ✍🏼 Pen trick expert (ask me about it)

When my mom and I immigrated to the US, our english was... broken.

At times, trying to get by on broken english felt like an uphill battle we were slowly losing together. But my mom worked tirelessly at the local mart, saving slices of her paycheck to buy me a set of educational CDs so I could have the opportunity to learn english, at just 5 years old.

Every evening, after my mom would return from work, the two of us would sit criss-cross on the living room floor and go through the days' lessons together.


Every evening, after my mom would return from work, the two of us would sit in the living room of our 1-bed apartment and go through the lessons together.

We didn't walk out of the experience with perfect English, but little by litte, the lessons became a foothold in this country for my mom and I...

Skills & Expertise

Frontend
React.js
Next.js
HTML5
Tailwind CSS
JavaScript
Backend
Python
Java
Spring Boot
FastAPI
Django
OpenAI
Design
Figma
UI/UX Design
Lucidchart
Prototyping
Wireframing
Security & Tools
FlareVM
IDA Pro
Wireshark
AWS
GCP
Docker
Kubernetes

Featured Projects

MaterialTicker
MaterialTicker
Get live, verified pricing of construction materials on one unified platform
Node
React
TypeScript
Tailwind CSS
python3
Construction Spec Parser
Construction Spec Parser
Application that extracts text from construction PDFs, generates features, and uses a Streamlit application for human-in-the-loop data labeling to build a machine learning classifier.
Python
Streamlit
scikit-learn
Pandas
PyPDF2
pdf2image
UX Testing Simulation Platform
UX Testing Simulation Platform
AI-driven platform for simulating user interactions with your designs. Upload UI mockups, configure test parameters, and get detailed insights from simulated users with different personas and behaviors.
React
TypeScript
Vite
Tailwind CSS
OpenAI

Let's Work Together

👇🏼 If you're interested in building something crazy, we should talk.

j.liao@columbia.edu
New York, NY