Jeff Lin
Co-Founder & CEO at American Public Media Group
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Lin is a founder and technology entrepreneur with over 10 years of experience building digital products and subscription video platforms, currently leading Pennant as Co-Founder and CEO and running Bust Out, a creative technologist agency he founded in 2005. He combines hands-on product and engineering leadership with civic-minded stewardship of the arts and public media—serving on boards including Minnesota Public Radio, American Public Media, Ordway Center, and Theatre Latté Da. Jeff also invests in early-stage startups as a limited partner in Twin Cities VC firms and brings a practical mix of startup grit and institutional governance to mission-driven media organizations. A liberal-arts-trained thinker (Carleton, Oberlin) with a background that spans software engineering, teaching, and even reality-TV, he blends technical fluency with cultural and community impact.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. in Biology with Distinction Magna Cum Laude Phi Beta Kappa Sigma Xi Dean's List Biology, B.A. in Biology with Distinction Magna Cum Laude Phi Beta Kappa Sigma Xi Dean's List Biology at Carleton CollegeMathematics German Physics Music, Mathematics German Physics Music at Oberlin College
Mandarin, German
Stackoverflow
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334reached
2answers
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Github Skills (18)
caching9
swift8
api8
observer8
rest8
networking8
reactive8
ios7
macos7
rest-api7
rack6
ruby-on-rails6
heroku6
php6
localization6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
jefflin/uptownairbnb
Jun 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
bustoutsolutions/siesta
Aug 2015 - Mar 2016
The civilized way to write REST API clients for iOS / macOS
Contributions:3 pushes in 7 months
apiapi-clientsswiftiosrest
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