Cole Lin is a full-stack product engineer with eight years of experience building customer-focused web products across startups and fast-growing tech companies in San Francisco. He has shipped features spanning ATS workflows, ad creative tooling, alarms and notification systems, and autonomous vehicle path planning, bringing practical product judgment to engineering execution. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, Cole blends hands-on development with a future-of-work focus after senior roles at Gem and engineering stints at StackAdapt, Verkada, Wish, and Xero. Comfortable across the stack, he leverages analytics and AI consulting experience from KPMG and a Computer Science degree from the University of Waterloo to turn ambiguous problems into usable, production-ready systems. An engineering-minded collaborator, he often moves between product and technical implementation and has experience working both in-office and remotely across the US and Canada.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
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