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

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) · B.S. in Computer Science

Sep 2025 – Jun 2029 (expected)

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 – Present

Undergraduate 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

2026

Website 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 – Present

President (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