Chien Lin
Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChien Lin is a software engineer based in California with five years of experience building full-stack and cloud-native systems, currently contributing to AWS on the Amazon ECS Agent. He combines back-end and DevOps expertise—improving container orchestration, error handling, and image-pull workflows—with front-end experience from prior roles developing storage management UIs in Angular/React. At Hitachi Vantara he built REST APIs, CI/CD automation and led a small engineering team, cutting manual test time by 80% and earning multiple internal awards. His background spans research-grade instrumentation and published work in microfluidics, reflecting a strong foundation in measurement-driven engineering. Comfortable across Java, Python, JavaScript and container ecosystems, he brings both production-scale engineering at AWS and hands-on mentoring experience to complex infrastructure projects.
5 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San DiegoMaster of Science (M.S.), Mechanical Engineering, 4.0, Master of Science (M.S.), Mechanical Engineering, 4.0 at National Taiwan University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (10)
error-handling10
docker10
go10
aws10
amazon-ecs10
dockers10
cicd9
go-modules9
debug8
debugging8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
aws/amazon-ecs-agent
Sep 2020 - Oct 2022
Amazon Elastic Container Service Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 439 reviews, 40 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Chien primarily contributed to the Amazon ECS Agent, focusing on improving its functionality and stability. Their work involved logging errors in HTTP responses, changing dependencies, and introducing new features. They also implemented an environment variable to allow for pulling dependent container images upfront. Additionally, they introduced error handling and added features to the TMDEv4 responses.
service-containeramazon-ec2agentelasticamazon
chienhanlin/amazon-ecs-agent
Aug 2020 - Feb 2024
Amazon Elastic Container Service Agent
Contributions:63 PRs, 554 pushes, 164 branches in 3 years 6 months
service-containeragentelasticamazondocker
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