Hi! I'm at Windsurf doing DevOps & ML Platform Engineering in the Bay Area! I went to UIUC (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) for both my Bachelors in CS + Music and Masters in CS. I enjoy doing Linux Administration, crafting optimized Docker images, and working with Bazel, so feel free to contact me via email:

• [email protected] (for job opportunities)
• [email protected] (anything else)
  • My public PGP key: DBED259BB132CCE96AC4D3F7689BA4FF85AA0D65. Please also include your public key in your email if using it.
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You can also communicate with me on Matrix (install the Element app to chat), my ID is @jasonyip:matrix.org

Or XMPP. My Jabber ID: [email protected]

My GitHub Pages site: https://jaschiu.github.io

Happy to receive feedback in the open source work I do, or job opportunities that fit my interests!

I was part of UIUC's GLUG SIG (the GNU/Linux User Group Special Interest Group of ACM). If you're currently a UIUC student, you should definitely join it!

Ask me anything about these UIUC courses I have completed:

• CS128 (Introduction to Computer Science II)
• CS[23]40 (Introduction to Computer Systems)
  • I took it the last semester it was coded as CS240, it's now CS340
• CS222 (Software Design Lab)
• CS374 (Introduction to Algorithms & Models of Computation)
• CS361 (Probability & Statistics for Computer Science)
• CS421 (Programming Languages & Compilers)
• CS425 (Distributed Systems)
• CS438 (Communication Networks)
• CS410 (Text Information Systems)
• CS411 (Database Systems)
• CS498 (Cloud Computing Applications)
• CS416 (Data Visualization)
• CS513 (Theory & Practice of Data Cleaning)
• CS463 (Computer Security II)
• CS598CC (Cloud Computing Capstone)
• CS598FDC (Foundations of Data Curation)
• ECE402 (Electronic Music Synthesis)
• MUS105 (Computation & Music I)
• MUS205 (Computation & Music II)
• MUS305 (Computation & Music III)
• MUS407 (Electronic Music Techniques I)
• MUS209 (Musical Acoustics)

Powerlifting and long-distance running. Competitive Smash Ultimate. Learning the Lojban language. Gentoo Linux.

I still have my WIP Homelab project to do, but once it's ready, I will no longer use GitHub pages to host this site (even if it means sacrificing 1 - 1e-9 availability)