Bennett Lin
Front-End Software Engineer at Zillow
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBennett Lin is a front-end software engineer with 12 years of experience, currently building user-facing experiences at Zillow using React and legacy YUI. He blends a rigorous academic background in music composition and theory with pragmatic web engineering, bringing a strong sense of structure, pattern recognition, and attention to detail to UI development. Bennett’s career spans full-stack bootcamp training and hands-on projects—visual analytics with D3/Chart.js/Mapbox and server-side Node.js cron automation—demonstrating comfort across the stack. Based in Seattle, he pairs pedagogy experience from teaching and TA roles with production engineering, making him effective at mentoring and translating complex requirements into intuitive interfaces. An often-overlooked strength is his editorial and typesetting experience, which informs a meticulous approach to UI polish and information design.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (M.A.), Music Theory, GPA 3.84, Master of Arts (M.A.), Music Theory, GPA 3.84 at University of WashingtonFull-Stack Web Development Immersive, Full-Stack Web Development Immersive at General AssemblyMaster of Arts (M.A.), Music Composition, GPA 4.00, Master of Arts (M.A.), Music Composition, GPA 4.00 at City University of New York-Hunter CollegeRuby on Rails Foundations and iOS Development Immersive, Ruby on Rails Foundations and iOS Development Immersive at Code Fellows
French, Mandarin, German, Hebrew, Hindi
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Github Skills (3)
music6
audio5
avfoundation1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bennettslin/bobtail_dominoes_app
Aug 2021 - Dec 2024
Contributions:213 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
bennettslin/Dyadminoes
Jan 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:398 commits, 91 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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