Liam Wong

I get asked whether I should pick one thing and go deep. Nanotechnology Engineering already sits across chemical, electrical and computer engineering, and outside of it I've spent real time on hand-poured metals, welding, film photography, computer vision, and building a product from scratch. Written down, that can look unfocused.

It hasn't been. Each of those taught the same lesson from a different angle — how a material behaves when you push it, how a tool wants to be held, how someone actually uses the thing you made once you're not in the room. The ideas I'm proudest of came from the overlap, not from any one of them on its own.

Depth gets you noticed. Range gets you the room where everyone else needs a translator.

That's the bet I'm making. I'd rather be the person who can sit between the hardware, the software, the design, and the people actually using the thing — and keep all four talking to each other. In practice it means I can take something from CAD and fabrication, to a computer vision pipeline, to a working front end, without needing a handoff at every border. The gaps between disciplines are usually where projects stall, and those gaps are the part I like.

If that sounds like someone who'd be useful on what you're building — hit me up.