Kailin Lu
Software Dev Engineer II at Amazon
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolKailin Lu is a software engineer with 8 years of experience blending data analytics and production software development, now building systems at Amazon after three years developing robotics and perception software at Covariant. She specializes in translating product and business questions into practical analytics or state-of-the-art models, valuing simple, high-impact solutions as much as top-performing architectures. Her background spans analytics leadership in retail, rigorous quantitative research at Columbia, and hands-on data engineering at Quid, giving her a strong end-to-end perspective from data pipelines to model deployment. Based in Oakland, she brings cross-disciplinary fluency in product metrics, experiment measurement, and scalable analytics infrastructure. Colleagues describe her as the kind of engineer who surfaces actionable insights from messy data while keeping implementation pragmatic and maintainable.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Environmental Economics and Policy B.A. Political Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Environmental Economics and Policy B.A. Political Science at University of California, BerkeleyMaster of Arts - MA Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences, Master of Arts - MA Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences at Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Github Skills (19)
stub7
dbt-packages6
python6
type-checking5
dbt5
data-analytics5
mypy5
static-analysis4
type-annotations4
data-visualization4
linkage3
historical3
blocking2
record-linkage2
stubs2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kailin-lu/recordlinker
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Tools for improved blocking algorithms for historical record linkage
Contributions:30 commits, 2 PRs, 24 pushes in 18 days
linkagerecord-linkageimprovedhistoricalblocking
kailin-lu/markovattribution
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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