Summary
Chia-wei (William) Lin is a Senior Software Engineer in Mountain View with nine years of hands-on experience building backend services, cloud-native systems, and CI/CD pipelines. Currently at Tesla working on infotainment and vehicle software, he has a proven track record of shrinking test cycles and cloud costs through pragmatic tooling—e.g., a Rust-based snapshot testing framework and S3-backed eviction strategy that cut testing time and disk usage dramatically. His background spans robotics, IoT, and vision systems from academic projects to production automation, showing comfort across Python, Rust, Kubernetes, and AWS/GCP. A CMU-trained software engineer who has led sprint planning for student teams, he combines rigorous engineering with operational thinking and a knack for delivering measurable efficiency wins.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at National Cheng Kung University
Master of Science - MS, Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese