π Hi, my name is Lionel Hu, and Iβm a software engineer specializing in full-stack/frontend. I work at Readily on a medical compliance AI tool.
- Built a branching visual-novel engine (save/restore, numeric branching, author tools).
- Initiated SEO and performance improvements with UI/SSR/data-fetch refactors across core pages
- Implemented LLM story pipelines (Groq, JSON schema repair/validation).
- Delivered production features end-to-end in a small startup environment (design β code β ship).
- MSE in CIS, University of Pennsylvania β GPA 3.90/4.00
- BA in CS, Rice University β GPA 3.70/4.00
- Built an end-to-end web search engine (crawler β TF-IDF + PageRank β ranking UI).
- Built a Gmail/Drive-style suite (webmail + cloud drive; not affiliated with Google).
- Built yelpscout, a Yelp-dataset business search & insights app.
I love gym πͺ, photography π·, traveling & the outdoors β°οΈ, and reading π.
Check out my pinned repos for the projects I build. (list continuously updating)
- DocSearch β End-to-end web search engine (crawler β indexing β TF-IDF + PageRank β ranking UI).
- Google Suite Copy β One repo: Gmail-style webmail + Drive-style cloud storage (not affiliated with Google).
- yelpscout β Yelp-dataset local business search & insights (Top-100 ranking, weekday popularity, tip-keywords, recommendations).
- UFOgram β Social app MVP with real-time feed, profiles, and infinite scroll.


