Brandon Liu

Current location: Taipei, Taiwan

Right now I'm interested in

• Geographic Information Systems, computer graphics, systems programming.
• Participatory mapping and cartography.
• Open source, copyright and the public domain.
• CJK localization.

Around the web

You can email me, yell at me on Twitter, or find me on GitHub, Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap.

What I've been doing

• 2019 — Started Protomaps, a new interactive mapping company.
• 2014 - 2019 — Freelance development for various clients:
  • For Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, a global mapping NGO.
  • For Stamen Design on a multitude of visualization and web cartography projects.
  • For Rare Volume on Cinder-based installations, including the digital signage system for The Shed.
• 2014 — Started Cadmapper - generative 3D city and terrain models for architectural site visualization and animation.
• 2013 — Started StackMachine, a Y Combinator summer '13 company.
• 2012 - 2013 — worked at Pivotal Labs in San Francisco.
• 2012 — Volunteer at Obama for America Tech Field Office.
• 2011 — Graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in Computer Science.
• 2010 — College internship, Site Reliability at Google.
• 2009 — Lead developer for Weardrobe, a fbFund accelerator '09 company.

Random Stuff

• Powers of Ten™ (1977)