Brandon Lin
Software Engineer at Figma
Hsinchu, Taiwan Province, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Lin is a software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building performance-critical systems across graphics rendering, AI infrastructure, and query compiler design. He currently contributes to Figma’s C++/TypeScript rendering engine that compiles to WebAssembly and WebGPU, and previously built a unified SQL compiler and ML tooling at Meta. Brandon pairs strong theoretical foundations in math and CS with pragmatic engineering to drive correctness, performance, and reliability in production systems. He’s an educator and mentor—TAing graduate deep learning and algorithms courses and mentoring on Coursera—bringing clarity to complex technical topics. Outside of engineering, he channels his obsession with speed and optimization into competitive speedcubing and organizing competitions, which informs his focus on measurable performance gains.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Regents Diploma, Advanced Regents Diploma at Stuyvesant High SchoolMaster of Science in Engineering - MSE, Data Science, Master of Science in Engineering - MSE, Data Science at University of Pennsylvania
English, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (5)
latex10
deep-neural-networks5
object-detection1
computer-vision1
keypoint1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Contributions:27 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
Brandon-HY-Lin/deep-reinforcement-learning
Jan 2019 - Feb 2020
Repo for the Deep Reinforcement Learning Nanodegree program
Contributions:91 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
pytorchnanodegreedeep-learningreinforcement-learningdeep-reinforcement-learning
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