Kevin Lin
Member Of Technical Staff at Self-employed
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Lin is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 11 years of experience building cloud-native systems, full-stack products, and developer tools, currently focused on observability at OpenAI. He has a strong AWS and DevOps pedigree from multiple roles at AWS and his own consulting and startups—founding Dendron (YC-backed), Nimbus, and BackupTable—where he translated developer workflows into integrated, production-ready tooling. Kevin combines hands-on engineering with product instincts and investor perspective as an angel in pre-seed/seed SaaS and infra startups. He’s credited with early prototypes and patents at Amazon (including work that influenced Alexa experiences) and has repeatedly driven high-leverage automation and cost-optimization efforts. Based in Seattle, he also hosts long-form conversations with founders and creators, reflecting a knack for mediating conflict and surfacing practical narratives that inform product strategy.
11 years of coding experience
12 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 (56)
sentence-embeddings10
transliteration10
latent-dirichlet-allocation10
named-entity-recognition10
group-policy10
relation-extraction10
sentence10
prefix10
arabic-nlp10
temporal10
srl10
data-mining10
word-embeddings10
lemmatization10
word-segmentation10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Kevin5025/KaiFantasy
May 2019 - Jul 2022
Contributions:46 pushes, 1 branch, 14 issues in 3 years 2 months
Isminoula/TopicalPhraseMiningGraph
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:22 commits, 14 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 days
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