David Lin
Software Engineer at Boeing
Hazelwood, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Lin is a versatile software engineer with nine years of professional experience and a Ph.D. in Physics and Astronomy, currently applying his expertise at Boeing after recent work building flight-software testing frameworks for Sierra Space. He has led cross-disciplinary teams to deliver mission-critical systems across quantum computing, aerospace, automotive, medical devices, finance, and mobile platforms, blending deep scientific rigor with pragmatic software engineering. Known for optimizing algorithms and test infrastructure—sometimes improving performance by orders of magnitude—he moves fluidly between Python, C/C++, MATLAB, Swift, Flutter, and cloud services. David combines hands-on coding, architecture, and mentoring with a track record of formal documentation and regulatory-aware development (SaMD/FDA), and he enjoys teaching and growing engineering teams. An uncommon thread through his career is translating advanced research (e.g., novel astrophysical algorithms and laser cooling experiments) into production-grade software that solves real-world problems.
9 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Biology Chemistry, B.S. Biology Chemistry at Biola UniversityPh.D. Physics and Astronomy, Ph.D. Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern UniversityM.S. Physics, M.S. Physics at Northern Illinois UniversityCoursera Certified Courses
Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (85)
windows10
dart10
cross-platform10
android10
macos10
flutter10
ios10
desktop10
material-design10
flutter-plugin9
sdk9
firebase9
web-framework9
mobile9
skia8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
davejlin/coursera
Dec 2016 - Jul 2021
Projects and exercises for Coursera
Contributions:40 PRs, 223 pushes, 45 branches in 4 years 7 months
javascript
davejlin/trading
Jan 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:48 commits, 47 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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