Jason Chao
Software engineering for research, industry, and civil society. UK non-profit leadership at national scale. Policy research adopted by UN treaty bodies.
Technology
- A dictionary-natural Wordle solverConditional probability over two word lists, plus k-means over character-encoded words to pick openers. No training, no simulations at runtime. Live; talked about at a PyData London Meetup.
- AppTraffic — mobile network forensics, usable by non-engineersA browser-operated platform that gives privacy and platform-studies researchers live access to the network traffic of any Android or iOS app — without a networking background.
- Flattening 8,000-file Android APKs into a single Parquet tableA research tool that lets non-engineers grep across years of Android apps in seconds. AppInspect, built for the SFB 1187 platform-studies group at Siegen.
Civil society & policy
- Defending a civil-society voting application against nation-state-grade attacksDesigning, operating and hardening a one-off civic voting system under live adversarial conditions — with a five-figure budget and a team of one.
- Leading Hongkongers in BritainDirecting a grant-funded UK non-profit community organisation — scaling from a volunteer response to structural impact, with AI-assisted drafting on the casework side.
About
Projects span software engineering, civic technology, and non-profit leadership. Based in the UK.
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