Howard Lin
Staff Software Engineer at Meta
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHoward Lin is a Staff Software Engineer in New York with over a decade of experience designing customer-focused products at scale for companies like Meta and Amazon. He has led cross-functional teams to deliver novel experiences—from Alexa’s first web-powered conversational shopping flows to discovery systems for Amazon Fashion—while prioritizing empathy and measurable user value. Comfortable across large enterprise systems and consumer-facing features, he brings a pragmatic engineering mindset shaped by early work in low-latency trading tools and mobile social research. A lifelong learner with a knack for turning ambiguous problems into impactful outcomes, he combines technical leadership with a storyteller’s instinct for product direction.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Stony Brook University
Chinese
Github Skills (21)
lists9
redis9
nosql9
strings9
disk9
database9
data-model8
message-broker8
fst8
key-value8
in-memory8
memory-database7
bigtable7
in-memory-database7
redis-server7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Howardlinsanity/Howardlinsanity.github.io
Mar 2016 - Oct 2018
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
Howardlinsanity/vimrc
Aug 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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