Derrick Lin
Software Engineer II, IP Protection at TikTok
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerrick Lin is a data-oriented Software Engineer with eight years of experience building scalable backend systems, API-driven services, and DevOps tooling across high-throughput consumer and financial products. He currently architects IP protection and image-similarity systems at TikTok Shop, processing hundreds of thousands of reports monthly and applying vector search with GPT-based analysis over tens of millions of images. Derrick’s background includes designing resilient, OpenAPI-compliant async APIs for American Express and producing production ML-enabled incident tooling at Yahoo, reflecting a blend of reliability, automation, and applied research. He also published first-authored papers on multi-service edge computing and coalition-game task offloading, bringing a research-driven approach to practical system design. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and a U.S. citizen, he’s comfortable shipping across the stack—from FaaS pipelines and adaptive queueing to CI/CD and observability—while reducing operational cycle times and moderator backlogs.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at National Taiwan UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (91)
python10
terraform10
gcp10
linux10
sql10
ansible10
azure10
kubernetes10
coding10
prometheus10
openstack10
elastic10
obsidian10
sre10
docker10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dlccyes/obsidian-nebula
Dec 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:20 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
dlccyes/playlastify
Jul 2021 - Nov 2022
A webapp visualizing your Spotify playlist stats with Spotify WebAPI & Last.fm API
Contributions:75 commits, 9 PRs, 102 pushes in 1 year 4 months
last-fmwebapispotify-playlistapireact
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