Jason Lin
Principal Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJason Lin is a Principal Software Development Engineer at Microsoft with a decade of experience building and hardening the Windows kernel, having progressed through roles focused on drivers, the Linux Subsystem for Windows, and core OS components. He combines low-level expertise in C/C++, assembly (x86/ARM), and Verilog with higher-level skills in Java, MATLAB, OpenCV, and OpenGL, reflecting a rare cross-domain fluency spanning embedded systems, computer vision, and graphics. Trained at Carnegie Mellon (BS/MS ECE), he has research and teaching background in robotics, computer architecture, and image segmentation, which informs his pragmatic approach to system design and diagnostics. Colleagues rely on him for deep debugging, performance-critical implementations, and bridging hardware-aware constraints with production software. Notably, his career path shows sustained impact inside a large-scale product organization from intern to principal, emphasizing mentorship and long-term ownership of platform reliability.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (21)
coreclr10
linux10
dotnet10
xamarin10
desktop10
wsl210
dotnet-core10
azure10
csharp10
microsoft9
cross-platform9
iot9
api8
api-documentation8
windows8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
JasonLinMS/corefx
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 2 days
dotnetfile-systemsconsolexmlnet-core
JasonLinMS/sdk-api
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
Public contributions for win32 API documentation
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
apiwin32win32-apiapi-documentation
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