Li-yi Lin
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolLi-yi Lin is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale, production-ready systems across advertising infrastructure, datacenter planning, and financial markets. Based in Sunnyvale, he currently contributes to YouTube Ads Infrastructure at Google and previously led datacenter capacity planning as a tech lead, pairing backend systems expertise with interactive UI features. His background spans distributed data workflows, Hadoop orchestration, and algorithmic simulation work using reinforcement learning from a Johns Hopkins research stint. Early-career experience at the Taiwan Stock Exchange involved migrating legacy COBOL systems to MySQL and coordinating multi-vendor cloud continuity projects, demonstrating both deep technical skill and cross-organizational project leadership. He holds an MSE in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins and an MBA in Information Management, blending technical rigor with product and business awareness. Unusually for a senior engineer, he combines hands-on optimization of critical infrastructure with practical experience in routing and dispatch algorithms.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration, Information Management, Master of Business Administration, Information Management at National Taiwan UniversityJohns Hopkins UniversityBachelor of Science, Mathematical Sciences, Bachelor of Science, Mathematical Sciences at National Chengchi University
English, ChineseGithub contributions (5)
jasonlingo/Machine_Leaning
May 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
jasonlingo/Traffic_Simulator
Jul 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:7 PRs, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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