Welcoming Vincent Liu

Vincent joins Exia as a Software Engineering Intern

Vincent is joining Exia to bring his full-stack engineering experience and agentic-AI development skills to advance next-generation decision-support systems.

Vincent is a recent graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz, he earned his B.S. in Computer Science in June 2025. In a recent engineering internship, Vincent helped develop a production-grade customer support chatbot, contributing to AI guardrails, API functionality that enhanced system reliability, and other interactive UI features. Serving in an instructional capacity at UC Santa Cruz, he guided and assessed hundreds of students on their application of Agile workflows, project planning strategies, and core software engineering principles.

Vincent’s fascination with defense tech comes from the belief that it is where engineering is pushed to its limits. “I view the defense and military tech sector as a proving ground for ambitious ideas—an environment where innovation must withstand real constraints and real consequences.”

Vincent’s first real exposure to the defense tech ecosystem came through a national security–focused DEFCON hackathon. Having been invited by one of the event’s sponsors, he saw it as an opportunity to experience the operational challenges and technical expectations of the defense innovation community firsthand. During the competition, he collaborated with a small engineering team to design and implement a GitHub repository vulnerability scanner—an automated tool capable of analyzing source code, flagging potential security vulnerabilities, and suggesting targeted fixes, enabling faster recognition of high-priority risks.

For fun, Vincent is an avid snowboarder and he also enjoys playing strategic and war-themed games for the way they mirror real decision-making challenges.