Hunter Lin
Founder And CEO at North America Real Estate Invest Group
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHunter Lin is a serial founder and CEO with 11+ years leading technology-driven ventures and cross-border real estate services, currently scaling North America Real Estate Investment Group from its Seattle headquarters to offices in New York, the Bay Area and Beijing. He combines deep engineering and product roots—from early work building web conferencing and VoIP systems and managing large engineering and QA teams—to founding consumer SaaS and then a global investment platform serving high-net-worth Chinese clients across 15+ countries. Hunter blends hands-on technical contributions (including parser work on the high-profile open-source TiDB database) with operational rigor developed at Groupon China and Huawei, enabling reliable online-to-offline concierge investment services. An MBA-trained general manager comfortable with finance, strategy and scaling distributed teams, he’s known for pragmatic problem-solving and a “pain builds character” mindset that propels iterative product and market expansion.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer, MS Computer at Beihang UniversityMBA General Management, MBA General Management at The University of British Columbia
English, Chinese
Github Skills (11)
parserator10
databases10
parser10
go10
distributed-database10
sql10
relational-databases10
mysql10
sql-database10
database10
testing9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pingcap/tidb
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
TiDB - the open-source, cloud-native, distributed SQL database designed for modern applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 8 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Hunter primarily contributed to the TiDB database project by modifying the parser component to enhance error messages and support new SQL syntax. Their work involved changes to the `go.mod` file and various test files, indicating a focus on refining the SQL parsing logic and expanding the database's functionality. The contributions included adding support for the "SHOW CREATE USER" syntax and improving the accuracy of error reporting within the parser.
ai-poweredtidbserverlesshtapreal-time
lnhote/tidb
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
TiDB is a distributed HTAP database compatible with the MySQL protocol
Contributions:24 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
mysqltidbdistributed-databasetikvdatabase
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