Max Schaefer

Hand-drawn cartoon illustration, wide landscape format on a white background, showing an illustrated career timeline as a winding beige path that snakes from lower left to upper right (without any forks), dotted with vignette scenes, cartoon lampposts, stars, and green shrubs. A cream banner ribbon across the top reads 'My Life's Journey'. At far left a large caricature of the author, Max Schaefer, a smiling man with long brown hair in a ponytail, glasses, and a light blue shirt, strides forward along the path. (See GitHub profile https://github.com/max-schaefer/ for a photo.) The path passes eight labelled milestones arranged in chronological order, several captioned in Chinese: a young Max reading a book under a stone archway with a Taiwanese flag, label `04-05 留學生（臺大）`; a tall German timber-framed half-timbered house with a red roof and a German flag, label `05-07 研究生 (TU Dresden)`; a stressed-looking Max at a desk piled with papers beside an 'Academia Sinica' sign and a Taiwanese flag, label `06-07 研究助理（中央研究院）`; a Gothic Oxford college building with a Union Jack, Max as a proud-looking robed graduate in mortarboard and blue-red DPhil gown, label `07-10 博士生（牛津）`; a blue-and-grey IBM office tower with a Stars and Stripes, label `10-12 博士後 (IBM)`; Max as a serious-looking lecturer presenting to a small seated audience under a Singaporean flag, label `13 助理教授（南洋大學）`; a purple 'Semmle' badge beside a network graph of connected nodes and a cluster of cartoon developers with a GitHub cat-octopus icon and a UK flag, label `13-24: 工程師（Semmle/GitHub）`; and finally, top right, Max as a relaxed-looking hacker working at a desktop computer inside a glass-walled office under a large blue 'XBOW' sign and another UK flag, label `24-now: 工程師（XBOW）`. Cheerful, storybook style with bold outlines and soft colours.