Leo Lin is a robotics software engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building perception, control, and learning systems for dexterous manipulation and humanoid platforms. Currently at Amazon’s Innovation Lab and with research stints at UIUC and NSF, he couples robot RL, vision, and tactile sensing expertise to bridge simulation (MuJoCo) and real-time teleoperation. He has shipped front-end contributions to the widely used Kolibri education platform and implemented embedded protocols and inference pipelines in Rust and Python for robot data collection and control. Comfortable leading teams—he co-chaired SIGRobotics’ embodied-AI hackathon and humanoid projects—Leo is adept at squeezing practical solutions from limited resources, whether designing compact PCBs or deploying dockerized factory tools. Based in Cupertino and pursuing CS/CE studies at UIUC, he brings an unusual blend of product-focused engineering and academic research that accelerates robot learning into deployable systems.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
startup school, startup school at Y Combinator
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Kolibri Learning Platform: the offline app for universal education
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 7 comments in 20 days
Contributions summary:Leo primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Kolibri learning platform. Their commits focus on modifying and creating user interface components, specifically related to facility configuration and class enrollment pages. These changes involved implementing features like a sticky bottom bar and addressing UI-related issues, such as correcting checkbox behavior and enabling/disabling UI elements based on user input. The user also addressed linting errors and made code clean-up efforts within the frontend codebase.
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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