Summary
Brian Lin is a software engineering team lead with nine years of experience who blends a former career in science education with practical full-stack development to mentor teams and simplify complex problems. At Packback he leads engineering efforts while drawing on mobile and API experience gained building Nativescript/Angular apps and backend services in Node.js, TypeScript, MongoDB, PHP, and SQL. His teaching background gives him a knack for breaking problems into teachable steps and raising team performance; early classroom wins included dramatically improving AP exam pass rates. A hobbyist musician, he brings a maker’s sensibility to product work—favoring elegant, minimal solutions that scale. He’s committed to continuous growth, pairing hands-on coding with people leadership to build software that improves lives. Based in the Greater Chicago Area, he combines scientific rigor, pedagogy, and full-stack pragmatism to drive delivery and developer growth.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Biological Sciences, Bachelor of Arts, Biological Sciences at Northwestern University
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign