Kevin Lin
Founder at Nimbus
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Lin is a Seattle-based founder and software engineer with 14 years building cloud-native systems, developer tools, and cost-optimized AWS infrastructure. He has a proven track record at Amazon and multiple startups—spawning products from ELB scaling innovations to YC-backed Dendron—and now leads Nimbus to make observability more affordable. Kevin blends hands-on devops and full‑stack engineering with product instincts, automating release pipelines and developer workflows (notably improving Dendron’s site build and deployment). A natural mediator and podcast host, he often works at the intersection of people and tech, turning complex operational problems into usable tools.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
W21 - Dendron, W21 - Dendron at Y CombinatorB.S, Computer Science, B.S, Computer Science at Rice University
German, French, Chinese
Github Skills (12)
github-ci10
bash10
static-site-generation10
githubaction-workflow10
cicd10
markdown-it9
markdown9
javascript8
ansible7
ansible-galaxy7
nodejs6
yaml6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
dendronhq/dendron-site
Jul 2020 - Dec 2022
Getting started with Dendron
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Technical Writer
DevOps Engineer & Technical WriterContributions:5 releases, 537 reviews, 2237 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on automating and improving the site's build, testing, and deployment processes. Their contributions include the creation of scripts for tasks like publishing, checking links, and generating release notes. They also made modifications to configuration files and documentation templates and updated the project's dependencies. The user's work streamlined the release process and improved the site's maintainability.
notesnote-takingpkmdendronmarkdown
dendronhq/dendron-blog
Jun 2021 - Oct 2022
Dendron Public Blog
Contributions:36 reviews, 82 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 4 months
hugojavascriptblogpostjekyllblog-articles
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