Kimmy Lin
Protocol Developer at Spacemesh
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKimmy Lin is a protocol developer in Seattle with 8 years of experience building distributed systems and blockchain infrastructure, currently contributing to Spacemesh’s Go full node and networking stack. She previously helped design secure crypto wallet services and key management at AMIS and spent a decade at Google improving Search infrastructure, build systems, and account security—work that includes a US patent for incremental index refresh. Kimmy combines deep backend and DevOps chops (Go, C++, Java, distributed storage and sync) with a user-focused mission to improve financial access for the unbanked. Colleagues describe her as both technically rigorous and refreshingly playful, reflected in a GitHub persona of “occasionally smart but always silly.” She thrives in diverse, transparent teams and brings a track record of refactoring complex systems to be more reliable and testable.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Business Administration and Management, General, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Business Administration and Management, General at National Taiwan UniversityMaster of Arts - MA, Computer Science, Master of Arts - MA, Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Boston
Github Skills (11)
go10
networking10
concurrency10
database9
testing9
system-design9
databases9
refactoring8
blockchain8
refactor8
devops7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
spacemeshos/go-spacemesh
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Go Implementation of the Spacemesh protocol full node. 💾⏰💪
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 1786 reviews, 192 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Kimmy's contributions primarily involved improvements to the Spacemesh protocol's underlying networking and synchronization mechanisms. They implemented features, such as the use of a shared shutdown context for network components and integrating the block validity from peers. These changes also included enhancing the efficiency of the syncer and fetcher, and refactoring by consolidating various functionalities. Additionally, the user worked on improvements to the testing framework and made code cleanups.
golangproof-of-spaceconsensusproof-of-workdag
countvonzero/go-spacemesh
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:129 branches in 1 day
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