Kevin Lin
Senior Customer Centric Engineer at Salesforce
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Lin is a backend engineer with a decade of experience designing real-time, event-driven systems for high-stakes environments, from processing 1B+ daily events at Capital One to safety-critical autonomy services at Aurora. He specializes in low-latency, scalable architectures using Go, Kafka, Flink, GraphQL, Redis, PostgreSQL, and AWS, and has a track record of reducing system load and improving integration efficiency through thoughtful microservice and GraphQL design. At Aurora he delivered features that directly impacted vehicle safety and operational decision-making—like Minimal Risk Maneuver and remote assistance tooling—while boosting ETA accuracy through real-time data integrations. Kevin enjoys mentoring early-career engineers and brings a practical blend of clean architecture and operational pragmatism to fast-moving teams in the Mountain View area.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Statistics, Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Statistics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, ChineseProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
robotic-esp/dataset_tools
Nov 2018 - Nov 2021
Tools for datasets published by the Oxford Estimation, Search, and Planning research group.
Contributions:7 commits, 11 pushes, 5 comments in 3 years
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