Summary
Gea-suan Lin is a founder and seasoned infrastructure engineer with 18 years’ experience designing CDNs, platforms, and scalable backend systems across startups and large tech firms. He blends low-level programming expertise in C, PHP, and Perl with deep MySQL and Unix system administration skills, having led platform and CTO roles at companies like Migo, KKBOX, and 104 Corporation. Gea-suan has a track record of moving between hands-on engineering and technology leadership, most recently founding Sprinter Ltd. after serving as CTO and principal engineer in fast-paced product environments. His academic background in applied mathematics and computer science underpins a pragmatic approach to performance and reliability engineering. Known for a mischievous hacker spirit—“doing naughty things” as his GitHub bio jokes—he often leverages unconventional techniques to drive meaningful technical progress. Based in New Taipei, Taiwan, he is comfortable operating at the intersection of devops, databases, and high-throughput networking.
18 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Applied Mathematics, Bachelor, Applied Mathematics at National Chiao Tung University
Chinese, English