Kytu Lin
CEO at Dcard
Taipei, Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolKytu Lin is the founder and CEO of Dcard, Taiwan’s leading social platform for young people, combining 12 years of product and engineering leadership with a startup founder’s mindset. Based in Taipei, he bridges business and technical execution, steering a large anonymous community while remaining an active hands-on engineer. His open-source footprint spans both front-end and back-end JavaScript ecosystems—contributing to high-profile projects like DefinitelyTyped, React Router, Relay, Jest, and express-graphql—highlighting a strong focus on type safety, developer experience, and testing. He blends practical UI work (Angular/React/Electron) with infrastructure and API improvements, and has improved TypeScript typings across multiple libraries. An early HCI researcher and student organizer, he also brings design-thinking and community-building experience from NTU to product strategy. Colleagues would note his curiosity for “trying everything with JavaScript” alongside a track record of shipping robust, maintainable code at scale.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BS) Management Information Systems General, Bachelor of Science (BS) Management Information Systems General at National Taiwan University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (57)
test-automation10
babel610
component-based10
apim10
javascript10
middleware10
expressjs10
coffeescript10
electron10
apidoc10
definitelytyped10
testing10
css10
typescript10
typescript-definitions10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
bottenderjs/messaging-apis
May 2017 - Dec 2022
Messaging APIs for multi-platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:78 releases, 19 reviews, 986 commits in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Kytu focused on setting up the project's configuration files, including the ESLint configuration, to ensure coding standards. They initiated the implementation of the messaging API for the Messenger platform. The user was also involved in adding support for features such as video notes. Additionally, the user implemented webhook features and also worked on adding API's for creating rich messages for Line users.
api-clientapibotchatwechat
electron-react-boilerplate/electron-react-boilerplate
May 2015 - Nov 2018
A Foundation for Scalable Cross-Platform Apps
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:28 releases, 301 PRs, 471 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Kytu primarily focused on enhancing the front-end functionality and user experience of the Electron React boilerplate. They added features for hot reloading, react-router for navigation, and implemented a counter page with associated styling. The user also made changes to CSS and HTML files, integrating stylesheet and making necessary adjustments for production build.
scalablebabelreactboilerplateelectron
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