Kenneth Lin
Chief Of Staff, Engineering at Liftoff Mobile
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKenneth Lin is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling high-performance systems, currently serving as Chief of Staff, Engineering at Liftoff Mobile where his teams operate ML infrastructure handling billions of daily requests with sub-100ms latency. He progressed through technical and people-lead roles—from Google front-end modernization work on YouTube Community to founding a kid-focused coding startup—bringing both deep hands-on engineering and product instincts. Kenneth has led supply path optimization and enterprise engineering teams, pairing performance optimization expertise with cross-functional program execution. He’s comfortable in polyglot stacks (Python, C++, Java, front-end frameworks) and has a track record of shipping resilient, production-grade systems that endure. Unusually, his background spans consumer-scale media at Google, startup product and hiring ops at Triplebyte, and educational product design, giving him a rare blend of technical rigor and user-centric perspective.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyInternational Baccalaureate Bilingual Diploma, International Baccalaureate Bilingual Diploma at International School of Beijing
English, Chinese, Japanese, French
Github Skills (86)
svg10
javascript10
nodejs10
dropdown-menu10
facebook10
frontend10
react10
emacs-lisp9
rocks9
emacs9
dynamic-import9
testing9
threejs9
vim-mode-plus9
declarative9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
linkenneth/dad-stock-etf
Aug 2015 - Jul 2019
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
linkenneth/csp
Mar 2013 - Jul 2019
Contributions:8 commits, 1 push in 6 years 5 months
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