Jack Lin
Software Engineer at Castlight Health
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJack Lin is a software engineer in San Francisco with 10 years of experience who combines database-focused Ruby on Rails web development with a PhD-backed research background in biochemistry. At Castlight Health he designs health data models, migrates legacy SOA services to Spring, and builds new data delivery frameworks while modernizing Angular.js front ends. He pairs PhD-level data analysis and experimental troubleshooting with hands-on product work, turning complex healthcare data problems into practical, data-driven solutions. Unusually for an engineer, he also ran a Home Instead franchise, gaining direct experience in operations, compliance, billing, and customer-driven requirements that inform his pragmatic approach to engineering.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Javascript and Ruby on Rails, Javascript and Ruby on Rails at Dev BootcampKaohsiung Senior High SchoolBS, Life Science and Chemistry, BS, Life Science and Chemistry at National Tsing Hua UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Stony Brook University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
350reputation
205kreached
20answers
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
xjlin0/attendees32
Jan 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 70 PRs in 3 years 3 months
xjlin0/attendee
Mar 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:187 commits, 116 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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