Jianru Lin
Founder at Matrix status
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolJianru Lin is a founder and seasoned full-stack engineer with 14 years building systems that evolved from simple desktop utilities to feature-rich websites and resilient distributed infrastructures running 24x7. Based in Singapore, he blends hands-on coding in C, Rust, JavaScript, Erlang and Lisp with product leadership as CEO of Humi Tech and founder of Matrix Status. His career spans freelance work, front-end engineering at CuriosityChina/Farfetch, and mentoring blockchain research at Sun Yat-Sen University, reflecting both entrepreneurial and academic engagement. Jianru is an active open-source contributor—his long-running lambda-view project showcases a practical focus on developer tooling for reading and navigating JavaScript code. He is passionate about shipping useful software and retains the same coder’s curiosity that drove his first “toy” projects to become core infrastructure. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic system designer who prefers building enduring, user-focused solutions over chasing technical novelty.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at China University of Geosciences
Github Skills (12)
nodejs10
javascript10
fileio9
file-operations9
filesystem9
npm9
error-handling9
html9
command-line-interface8
cli8
command-line8
front-end-development7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Jianru-Lin/lambda-view
Aug 2016 - Nov 2019
A New Tool for Reading JavaScript Code since 2017
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:124 commits, 3 PRs, 107 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jianru primarily contributed to the development of a JavaScript code reading tool. Their work focused on implementing core functionalities such as reading, parsing, and displaying JavaScript code in an HTML format. They also introduced features like opening multiple files and integrating a web server, demonstrating a strong understanding of both front-end presentation and back-end processing. The commits also involved enhancements to improve the user experience, including color-coded console output and fixing bugs.
javascripteditorparserreaderes6
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