Eddie Lin
Data Engineer
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolEddie Lin is a data engineer with 11 years of experience building analytics and production data systems for research and policy organizations in the Greater Chicago Area. He currently supports evidence-driven work at Crime Lab and Education Lab after three years as a data scientist at the University of Chicago’s Center for Data Science and Public Policy. His background blends academic rigor—M.S. in Photonics and a B.S. in Physics from National Taiwan University—with hands-on engineering across nonprofits and research labs. Eddie has a track record of turning messy social science data into reproducible pipelines and actionable insights for stakeholders in criminal justice and education. He brings both research-first thinking from Academia Sinica and practical data engineering chops from industry gigs, making him adept at bridging statisticians and production teams. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex methods into maintainable systems that prioritize transparency and impact.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Physics, Bachelor's Degree, Physics at National Taiwan University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (33)
artificial-intelligence10
python10
machine-learning10
prediction10
modeling10
prediction-model9
pii8
multilabel-classification7
fairness-ml7
api7
data-processing6
classifier6
webservice6
ai5
unstructured-data5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tweddielin/flask-imsearch
May 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:18 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
dssg/tyra
Dec 2016 - Dec 2017
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Contributions:147 commits, 46 PRs, 277 pushes in 1 year
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