Chih-wei聽Lin
Senior Software App Engineer at Yahoo
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolChih-wei Lin is a Senior Software App Engineer with nine years of experience building high-performance Android applications, currently driving feature and architectural work for Yahoo Finance from Boulder, Colorado. He architected and launched an Android app with over 3M active users, maintaining sub-0.4% crash rates and sub-second cold starts through disciplined use of Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, and modern MVVM/MVI patterns. Skilled in CI/CD, test automation and performance benchmarking, he integrates tools like SonarQube, jacoco, Firebase App Distribution and Macrobenchmark to keep quality and reliability high. His background spans embedded Android for wearable devices, RESTful middleware in Scala/Akka, and research projects bridging academic and product work, reflecting a pragmatic mix of systems thinking and user-centered design. Collected industry and research experience plus a CU Boulder MS in Computer Science give him a strong foundation for solving scale, performance, and UX challenges.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor鈥檚 Degree Computer Science, Bachelor鈥檚 Degree Computer Science at National Chiao Tung UniversityMaster鈥檚 Degree Computer Science, Master鈥檚 Degree Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
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Github Skills (28)
barcode-scanner8
translation7
text-recognition7
android7
firebase7
face-detection7
object-detection6
google6
firebase-functions6
ssl-pinning6
firestore5
crashlytics5
ios4
machine-learning4
firebase-storage4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
chihweil5/chihweil5.github.io
Aug 2019 - Dec 2021
Contributions:33 commits, 29 PRs, 51 pushes in 2 years 3 months
chihweil5/Youbike
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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