1. X. Alexander Liu
1601 Rice Boulevard, Houston, TX 77005
(910) 728-0992 or xal1@rice.edu
EDUCATION Rice University, Bachelor of Science
George R. Brown School of Engineering, Houston, TX, expected May 2016
BS in Computer Science with a minor in Financial Computation and Modeling
GPA: 3.93, President’s Honor Roll for 5 semesters
COMPUTER
SKILLS
Languages & Software: Django and Flask, Java, NodeJS and Ember-CLI, learning
Objective-C and Swift
Experience with: full stack web development, mobile app development, game develop-
ment, algorithms and data structures
EXPERIENCE Software Development Intern at Microsoft June 2015-August 2015
Universal Store Team, Operating Systems Group, Microsoft Corporation
• Worked in a large company setting on a team of 10+ members
• Learned communication and teamwork skills with PMs, devs, and testers
• Created features seen by millions of people daily (see Projects)
Engineering Intern at RetailMeNot, Inc. June 2014-August 2014
Engineering Department, RetailMeNot, Inc.
• RetailMeNot is the world’s largest online coupon company
• Wrote a script that parsed receipts for data using OCR and BeautifulSoup
• Developed iPhone app that processes submitted receipts in real time
Rice Computer Science Club President March 2014-present
Rice Computer Science Club, Rice University
• Chair of Rice Apps - an Agile group composed of students that develops various
apps for the benefit of Rice student body
• Director of Technology of Rice Student Association - Maintain SA webpage at
http://sa.rice.edu and conduct annual campus-wide elections
• Organizer of HackRice - one of the biggest hackathons in Texas with 300 people
from all over the country
• Founder of Texas Hackathon League - a potential collaboration between multiple
Texas student-run hackathons
PROJECTS Weblends June 2015-August 2015
Microsoft Corporation
• Used EmberJS to create purchase and payment/billing flows for Microsoft Store
• Allowed users to add PayPal accounts during payment process
• Developed Ember-CLI framework for streamlining the entire build process from
half hours to seconds
Rice Wellbeing App October 2014-present
Rice Apps, Rice University
• Created an app for the Rice Student Association Wellbeing committee
• Includes features such as Rice Emergency Alerts and Uber for Night Escort
• Worked with students, staff, and faculty as nontechnical customers
Whistle Hero, First Place Winner at HackTX 2013 November 2013
Largest hackathon in Texas, held at University of Texas at Austin
• Won $6000 with a team of five against 500+ other competitors
• Player had to whistle a tune to the beat with correct timing
• Pitch recognition and game design written in JavaScript
• See http://whistle.riceapps.org/