Houcheng Lin is a seasoned software development engineer with 11 years of professional experience, currently at Amazon and based in Taoyuan City, Taiwan. He brings deep expertise in embedded systems, virtualization, and network device firmware—having ported QEMU to Android, added introspection modules to Linux KVM, and led IP-DSLAM and real-time OS projects. Comfortable across languages and layers, he excels at automated testing, feature delivery, and identifying system bottlenecks in both kernel and application domains. His background includes founding-engineer work on low-level drivers and high-availability controllers, reflecting a rare blend of hands-on kernel hacking and product-focused team leadership. Notably, he has combined virtualization introspection with kernel interrupt hooks to analyze cross-platform thread behavior, revealing a pragmatic focus on observability in complex systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science and Information Engineering, MS, Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Chiao Tung University
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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Houcheng Lin - Software Development Engineer at Amazon