Hello! I'm Allen Liu. I'm a university student at Purdue University, studying a double major in Cyber Security and Networking Engineering Technology, along with a minor in Accounting.
I was born in Canada in 2003 to two recent immigrants from China. My father is a software engineer and my mother is an accountant, and we moved to California for work and school. I was accepted to Purdue University in 2021 for Cyber Security. I added Accounting in 2022 and Networking in 2023, and I am on track to graduate in 2025.
I have been programming in some capacity since around 2010, starting with simple toys in HTML in Codecademy, moving on to Javascript, then studying Linux, bash, and Java in high school. I've also learned Cisco IOS in college and I will be learning C and C++ by the end of university. This website runs on Apache, and I wrote the pages manually using HTML and CSS in Sublime Text and nano. The server itself is an Ubuntu virtual machine running in Google Cloud.
I have professional experience as a dining court associate, intern historian, and teacher's assistant, in that order. From February 2022 to May 2022, I worked as a dining court associate for Windsor Dining Court at Purdue, stocking lines and keeping counters clean. I quit because I did find the work fulfilling, but it was hard work, it ran late, and I was getting paid almost nothing.
In June and July of 2022, I interned at the Indiana Historical Society as a processor. I was given unsorted collections of documents and I sorted, cataloged, and organized documents into a format accessible for researchers. Some of my research is available at the Indiana Historial Society; if you want, you can check in to the library and ask.
From August 2022 to December 2023, I worked as a teacher's assistant, running classrooms, managing students, grading work, and keeping myself available for students. For the Fall 2022, Spring 2023, and Summer 2023 semesters, I was a TA for the Intro to Systems Architecture class, a 100 level class that put me with a lot of first-year students. For Fall 2023, I was a grader for the Cybersecurity Fundamentals course, but since I didn't teach a lab section, it was much less fulfilling since I very rarely spoke to my students, and never face to face. My professor was also largely absent this semester due to a medical emergency which made my semester even worse. Additionally, because of my double major, I have to take 7 classes for the spring 2024 semester. I still wasn't getting paid very much for my work, so I had to quit.
If you're looking for a cybersecurity and computer networking graduate with comprehensive experience in system administration, as well as hardware repair, consider hiring me!