Brian Lin
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Lin is a software engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable backend systems, currently at Microsoft after several impactful engineering roles at Amazon focused on Last Mile Identity and onboarding flows. He has a strong track record of optimizing production services—evidenced by a 90% runtime improvement on latency reporting at CME Group and developing an automated dependency-inference service for Redshift that saved thousands of customer hours. Comfortable across Java, Python, AWS, and data-heavy environments, Brian pairs hands-on implementation with a pragmatic focus on cost, performance, and automation. Based in San Francisco and trained in computer engineering at UIUC, he also brings mentoring and teaching experience from university course staff and tutoring roles, highlighting his ability to communicate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at William Fremd High SchoolBachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English
Github Skills (16)
explore9
crossword9
bioinformatics8
sequence8
visual-analytics7
visualization6
visualize5
regl5
parsing3
python3
monitor3
jupyter2
apache2
biopython1
airflow1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MoBagel/airflow
Sep 2022 - Jan 2024
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Contributions:108 releases, 1 review, 103 pushes in 1 year 4 months
monitorapacheprogrammaticallyapache-airflowairflow
bylin/nealelab-scripts
May 2013 - Nov 2014
Contributions:165 commits in 1 year 5 months
pythonparsingsgeextensionsjupyter
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