Forest Lin
Vice President Of Data & Analytic
Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China
Summary
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Top SchoolForest Lin is a data and analytics executive with 15+ years in software development and a proven track record building high-performance Big Data and BI platforms across finance and enterprise. Currently VP of Data & Analytic at HSBC, he blends hands-on architecture and coding (Java/Scala/Python, Spark, Kafka, Hadoop) with product leadership to raise engineering capabilities and deliver data products. He has led global, cross-functional teams of 20+ people, implemented DevOps and Agile transformations, and owned data middle-platform and multimodal ingestion initiatives. Prior roles include VP-level IT delivery and founding data engineering teams that delivered data lakes, KPI monitoring, and customer persona systems for retail and surveillance domains. Known for pragmatic technical stewardship, Forest routinely drives POCs, code reviews and architecture committees to de-risk adoption of new technologies. Based in Guangzhou, he pairs deep operational experience in regulated banking with a maker’s mindset for scalable analytics solutions.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electronic and Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Electronic and Information Technology at Guangdong Polytechnical Normal University
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (19)
measurement10
spec10
sketch-plugin10
javascript9
react8
ios-framework7
typescript7
teammates7
sketch-app7
sketch6
sketchup5
ios5
portal2
hide2
scenekit1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
forestlin1212/sketch-measure
Nov 2018 - Jan 2020
A customized version of Sketch Measure
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 2 months
customizedsketch-appmeasuresketchupsketch
labpano/pilot-control-protocol
Feb 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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