James Lin
Lead Software Engineer at Palantir Technologies
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Lin is a Lead Software Engineer based in Berkeley with 11 years of experience building and scaling software infrastructure at Palantir and earlier engineering roles including internships at Infinity Ward. He combines hands-on full-stack development with team leadership, having moved from individual contributor to lead roles while mentoring engineers on complex distributed systems. His open-source work includes full-stack contributions to a browser-based roguelite Pokémon fangame where he improved core gameplay logic, input handling, and added internationalization support—showing a pragmatic attention to user-facing detail. A UC Berkeley MS graduate in Computer Science, he brings both rigorous academic training and practical production experience delivering reliable systems at scale.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyMission San Jose High School
English, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
typescript10
javascript10
phaser10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
i18next9
debug8
front-end-development8
game-development8
internationalization7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pagefaultgames/pokerogue
Apr 2024 - May 2024
A browser based Pokémon fangame heavily inspired by the roguelite genre.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 PRs, 1 comment in 24 days
Contributions summary:James contributed to both the front-end and back-end aspects of the browser-based Pokémon fangame. They fixed a bug related to burn damage calculation within the game's core gameplay logic. The user also revamped the input handling system, and added a new framework (i18next) to manage and support internationalization. Additional changes involved refactoring string literals into the i18next framework and catching global errors to display them in an alert box.
Neverblade/intelligent-ik
Apr 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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