Jerry Lin is a software engineer and builder with 11 years of experience focused on bringing AI research into production-scale systems, particularly in recommendation, resume understanding, and agentic/affective computing. He holds a Ph.D. in AI from USC and has led core AI infrastructure and model production efforts at LinkedIn, earlier contributing to its acquisition-era Connectifier team. At startups and YC-backed Arc he acted as a senior/seed-stage technical leader, shipping backend, data, and infra systems that accelerated engineering velocity and operational scale. More recently he’s worked on RAG and agentic AI for knowledge automation and is now building a revenue platform optimized for the AI era. Beyond product engineering, he founded internal education programs to upskill engineers in AI/ML fundamentals—signal of a pragmatic teacher-researcher mindset. Based in Mountain View, he blends deep academic training with hands-on startup execution across distributed systems and cognitive/affective architectures.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), Ph.D., Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) at University of Southern California
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