Elvin Lin
Trading Platform Engineer
Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
Summary
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Top SchoolElvin Lin is a Trading Platform Engineer with 10 years of experience designing and operating distributed, cloud-native systems across EMEA and APAC for finance and web2 companies. He combines hands-on development in Java, Python, PHP, and C# with modern frontend (Next.js/TypeScript) and a strong multi-cloud infrastructure background (AWS, GCP, Alibaba, Azure, Volcano). At Upway Group he leads an international data team and architects risk-management and trading data solutions; prior roles at Trip.com, Morgan Stanley and PayPal emphasize incident-driven reliability, cloud migration, and mentoring. He holds an MSc from Imperial College London, is a CFA Level II candidate, and maintains an exploratory GitHub that reflects his interest in elegant, puzzle-like designs. Detail-oriented and fast-learning, he has a track record of simplifying complex architectures to cut cost and improve stability under operational pressure. Legally employable in Hong Kong (TTPs holder), he blends quantitative finance experience with pragmatic engineering for production-critical platforms.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Msc Communication & Signal Processing, Msc Communication & Signal Processing at Imperial College LondonBsc Electronic Information Science & Technology, Bsc Electronic Information Science & Technology at Fudan UniversityHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Chinese, Chinese, English
Github Skills (35)
cdc9
servicenow9
ipython9
transformation9
streaming9
high-performance9
aerospike9
batch9
sql-engine8
python8
synchronization8
apache8
partitioning8
data-ingestion8
singer8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ssfve/firstnode
Aug 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:4 PRs, 352 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 4 months
ssfve/boardgamerules
Jun 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 1103 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 8 months
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