Jun-wei Lin
Software Engineer at MGM Resorts International
Irvine, California, United States
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Top SchoolJun-wei Lin is a software engineer and site reliability practitioner based in Irvine, California, with 11 years of industry and research experience and a Ph.D. in Software Engineering from UC Irvine. He currently develops production-grade systems at MGM Resorts International, bringing deep expertise in backend engineering, reliability, and testing practices honed during his graduate research and internships. Jun-wei has hands-on open-source experience—building a robust PTT web crawler that handled Python 2/3 compatibility, parsing edge cases, and added unit tests to improve long-running reliability. His background bridges academic rigor and practical delivery, making him adept at turning research insights into maintainable, testable code for large-scale environments. Notably, he pairs SRE-focused thinking with a researcher's attention to reproducibility and exception-handling detail.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at National Tsing Hua UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Software Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Software Engineering at University of California, Irvine
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (8)
beautifulsoup10
python10
webscraping10
http-request10
unit-testing9
json8
api-design8
testing7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jwlin/ptt-web-crawler
Feb 2015 - Mar 2018
PTT 網路版爬蟲
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:41 commits, 9 PRs, 36 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jun-wei focused on developing the core functionality of a PTT web crawler. Their contributions included parsing PTT content, handling Python 2/3 compatibility, and implementing exception handling. They also added unit tests to improve code quality and ensure the crawler's reliability. The user's work primarily involved the crawler's logic and data extraction using libraries like BeautifulSoup and Requests.
crawlerpttpythonspider
jwlin/py-scraping-analysis-book
Jan 2018 - Sep 2020
博碩文化「Python 網路爬蟲與資料分析入門實戰」範例程式碼
Contributions:25 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 2 years 9 months
pythonscrapyspiderpython3crawler
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