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, 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 Max Schaefer, a smiling man with long brown hair in a ponytail, glasses, a beard, and a light blue shirt, strides forward along the path. 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: 臺大留學`; 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 中央研究院助理`; 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: 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: XBOW`. Cheerful, storybook style with bold outlines and soft colours.