Jack Lin
Software Engineer at Castlight Health
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJack Lin is a software engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience blending Ruby on Rails web development and a strong data-first mindset rooted in academic research. He designs and implements data delivery and configuration systems—moving legacy SOA services to Spring and modernizing front-ends from Angular.js to Angular 7—while maintaining monolithic Rails apps that integrate with SOA/MyBatis backends. His background as a PhD-trained researcher and postdoc in biochemistry gives him a rare ability to translate complex data and experimental workflows into practical, testable software solutions. He also brings operational experience from running a franchise, combining technical implementation with business, HR, and compliance responsibilities. Known for loving databases and data analysis, he prefers breaking hard problems into pragmatic, solvable steps and shipping reliable systems that enable data-driven development.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Javascript and Ruby on Rails, Javascript and Ruby on Rails at Dev BootcampKaohsiung Senior High SchoolBS, Life Science and Chemistry, BS, Life Science and Chemistry at National Tsing Hua UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Stony Brook University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
350reputation
205kreached
20answers
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
xjlin0/attendees32
Jan 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 70 PRs in 3 years 3 months
xjlin0/attendee
Mar 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:187 commits, 116 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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