Evan Mao

Hi, I'm Evan Mao. Welcome to my website! I currently live in Seattle, Washington, but I am actually Chinese-Canadian. I was born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada until I moved to America in 2021. My life has drastically changed since then, but I definitely don't regret the decision to move!

I study Computer Science at the University of Washington in Seattle, with a minor in Music. I interned at Amazon as a Junior Software Engineer in the Books org for over 15 months. I have a strong passion in problem solving, and making a positive impact on the community around me with my technical skills! I continue to be inspired by all the technological advances in the field.

I also play Piano and Bass Trombone! I am part of the University of Washington Wind Ensemble and Trombone Choir, playing alongside many other wonderful musicians like me and sharing our passion for music for hundreds to hear. I also used to attend many classical piano competitions, winning many gold medals. Here is me playing with an orchestra for a concert with other competition winners! I still practice piano occasionally, but I mostly do trombone now.

Some other hobbies I have include skiing, video games, admiring cool cars, meeting new people, and playing Catan!

Youtube Channel

I have a Youtube channel where I post all sorts of things from video games to music transcriptions!
I have a Geometry Dash video with over 2.2 million views, a three-year music transcription project on the "Wii Photos" channel on the Nintendo Wii (featuring sheet music for 17 soundtracks), and I recently made a Minecraft video that is 20 minutes of non-stop parkour with giant mob builds and beautiful scenery! (rather than building cool houses, I just build parkour courses)

Twitch Channel

I used to be Twitch streamer, playing games like Minecraft and Jackbox Party Packs with my audience of 3,000 followers. I would often encouage viewer participation by letting them join my gaming sessions, or doing Would You Rather questions! I haven't had time to livestream recently due to colege, but I hope to get back into it soon!
Here is a video of an event on a Minecraft server that I hosted, where 13 of my viewers battle each other to win prizes. It was super fun, check it out!

Custom Length Wordle

This Wordle program is a Java project I started in High School that I continue to refine as I learn more about programming in university! It prompts the user to guess a word of desired length (from 3 to 6 letters) and gives feedback on the correctness of the guess, like the real Wordle, except more flexible! This program also features hard mode as well! I'm currently working on implementing it into its own website so that it can be played online!

"Chopin Liszt" Discord Bot

Chopin Liszt (sounds like "shopping list") is a passion project to practice coding in Python, and also further educate myself on topics I am passionate about: classical music, and the Beatles! The bot includes features such as picking out a random song from a user-specificied Spotify playlist, posting random supercars alongside information about them from Google Gemini, and a daily message that includes history of a random Beatles and classical song!
I haven't actually gotten into deploying the bot for users to test, so you can't actually use it at the moment. I'm currently working on making it happen, as well as implementing more features and commands to make the bot more interactive and enjoyable for users with similar interests as me!

You can find many more of my coding projects in my GitHub page!