Summary
Hai Lin is a Member of Technical Staff based in California with 14 years of experience building and operating large-scale real-time data platforms. He has driven Kafka-as-a-Service, cross-region replication, and secure-by-default Kafka platforms at Netflix and Airbnb, supporting thousands of brokers and complex migrations at cloud scale. His background spans end-to-end streaming systems—Flink, Spark Streaming, Kafka, Iceberg—and operational control planes that centralize lifecycle management for messaging infrastructure. At Hulu he maintained clusters handling tens of billions of messages per day, and he continues to focus on automating reliability and security for data infrastructure. Trained in physics and computer science (Xiamen University, Columbia Engineering), he brings a quantitative, systems-oriented approach to solving production reliability and performance challenges. Notably, he blends deep operational experience with platform design, making self-service and automation first-class outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.S, Computer Science, M.S, Computer Science at Columbia Engineering
Master of Science (M.S.), Computational Physics, Master of Science (M.S.), Computational Physics at Xiamen University