Christopher Lin
CEO And Co-Founder at EvolvArts
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Lin is a CEO and co-founder with 12 years of experience building AI-driven products and research-first engineering teams from startup to acquisition. He blends deep academic training (PhD/MS, University of Washington) and early engineering at Facebook with hands-on roles at Microsoft, Semantic Machines, and Facebook AI, where he focused on conversational and applied research. As Principal Engineer at Numbers Station AI he helped scale a venture that was later acquired, and he now leads EvolvArts while simultaneously performing as Section First Violin for Symphony Tacoma, signaling a rare mix of technical leadership and disciplined creative practice. Christopher is strongest at translating cutting-edge research into production conversational systems and ML tooling, with a track record of shipping in both research labs and fast-moving startups. Based in Seattle, he combines founder-level strategy with day-to-day engineering credibility and an intriguing parallel life as a professional musician.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, MS, Computer Science & Engineering, PhD, MS, Computer Science & Engineering at University of WashingtonBA, Mathematics, Computer Science, BA, Mathematics, Computer Science at UC Berkeley
Spanish, Chinese, FrenchGithub contributions (5)
polarcoconut/thesis-skew
May 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:186 commits, 8 pushes in 1 year 2 months
SerendipityQuartet/serendipityquartet-website
Aug 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:25 pushes in 8 months
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