Elvis Dragon Mao
Software Engineering · Interactive Systems · Web & Creative Technology
Profile
Computer Science undergraduate at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University building production web systems, interactive experiences, and human–AI research prototypes. Independent developer since 2023; creator of emfont, an open-source CJK webfont service serving ~1.15M requests/day, with experience spanning full-stack engineering, infrastructure, interaction design, and technical leadership.
Education
Experience
Independent Developer & Designer · LinYao Studio since Aug 2026
2023 – Present- Design and develop production websites, interactive experiences, and internal systems for artists, cultural projects, and institutional clients — end to end, from client communication and design through development, deployment, and maintenance.
- Built handwriting project website for the font company Justfont, release and personal web experiences for YouTuber and musician ifeisu, and the exhibition website for The Ambivalent Facade.
- Developed equipment-management, course-registration, and digital-signage systems for NYCU’s Innovative Creative Technology Co-Working Space.
Human-AI & Creative Computing (HAIX) Lab, NYCU
Dec 2025 – PresentUndergraduate Researcher & Systems Administrator
- Build and maintain computing infrastructure for human–AI interaction experiments and research prototypes spanning conversational AI, speech processing, collaborative interfaces, and real-time interaction.
- Built foundational infrastructure for OmniObserve (Jitsi, Whisper, ChatGPT API), a meeting-consensus research prototype (poster presented at TAICHI 2026).
SITCON 2026
2026Website Designer & Development Team Lead
- Owned the conference website’s visual and interaction design while leading an 8-person development team, collaborating with a 14-person design team within a 153-person volunteer organization.
- Built an interaction-heavy experience with Astro, GSAP, Lenis, Three.js, Cannon.js, PWA and emfont; selected as an Awwwards Nominee.
NYCU BambooFox Cybersecurity Club
Aug 2024 – PresentPresident (Sep 2026 – Present) · previously Member / Systems Administrator (Aug 2024 – Aug 2026)
- Lead a 30-member cybersecurity community across education, competitions, infrastructure, and events; re-established regular technical programming after a year of minimal activity.
- Member of BambooFox’s championship team at the 2025 HITCON CTF Exhibition; contributed to challenge solving and developed the frontend for a team-authored challenge.
Selected Projects
emfont · Open-Source CJK Webfont Infrastructure
Fastify · MinIO · Cloudflare- Built and operate a service supporting 140+ CJK fonts at approximately 1.15 million HTTP requests per day, adopted across commercial, event, educational, and public-sector websites.
- Designed production infrastructure using K3s, Fastify, MinIO, VPS hosting, and Cloudflare CDN; evaluated dynamic glyph generation against static Unicode-range partitioning to optimize cacheability and transfer size.
emtech · Independent Technical Publication
2021 – Present- Original articles, tutorials, and multi-part series on software, systems, and creative tools — 1.6M+ Chinese characters, about 50,000 page views per month — on a custom-built Astro platform with its own content architecture and interaction system.
Selected Honors & Professional Service
- Awwwards Young Jury
- 2026 – Present
- Awwwards Nominee · SITCON 2026
- 2026
- Champion · HITCON CTF Exhibition
- 2025
- Awwwards Honorable Mention · elvismao.com
- 2024
- Best Technical Award · SITCON Hackathon
- 2024
- Honorable Mention, DevOps · iThome Ironman
- 2024
Technical Skills
- Languages & Web
- TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, HTML/CSS, React, Astro, Node.js, Fastify/Express
- Infrastructure
- Linux, Docker, Kubernetes/K3s, CI/CD, Nginx, Caddy, Cloudflare, MinIO, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, OpenTelemetry, Grafana
- Interactive Development
- GSAP, Three.js, Cannon.js, PWA, performance profiling, animation-heavy interfaces
- Design & Hardware
- Figma, interaction design, motion design, Adobe Creative Suite · Arduino, ESP32, IoT prototyping