Kuan Lin
Staff Software Engineer at Ripple
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolKuan Lin is a Staff Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building large-scale, distributed systems across fintech, e-commerce, and cloud services. He has driven architecture and implementation for search platforms, security analytics, and database control planes at companies including Loblaw, Amazon, AWS, and Ripple, combining service- and event-driven design with cloud-native tooling. Comfortable across Java, Kotlin, Python and JavaScript, Kuan repeatedly delivers high-throughput pipelines and developer-facing SDKs that enable partners to integrate with complex platforms. His background in ECE and academic research on cross-layer optimization gives him an uncommon systems-level perspective that informs practical trade-offs between efficiency and fairness. Colleagues rely on him to turn ambiguous requirements into robust, observable services and to mentor teams on scalable design and clean code. Based in Toronto, he blends deep technical rigor with hands-on delivery in production-critical environments.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Applied Science (M.A.Sc.) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Applied Science (M.A.Sc.) Electrical and Computer Engineering at McMaster UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electronic Information Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electronic Information Engineering at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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Github Skills (23)
search-engine10
address-parser10
java10
restful10
elasticsearch10
opensearch9
record-linkage9
normalizing9
nlp8
geo8
parsing8
jquery-validation8
deduplication7
machine-learning7
natural-language-processing7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
walkman-kuan/Instaurant
Jul 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:220 commits, 13 pushes, 17 branches in 1 year 3 months
walkman-kuan/Get-Hands-Dirty-First-Design-Patterns
Feb 2018 - Dec 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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