Lin Chan
Engineering Manager at Snowflake
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolLin Chan is an Engineering Manager with a decade of experience building resilient, data-intensive systems at Snowflake and Microsoft, currently leading teams focused on metadata frameworks, backup & restore, transaction handling, and cloning/discovery tooling. He advanced from senior developer roles on the SQL Server storage engine and Spark on Azure to architecting cloud VM provisioning and enterprise-grade metadata solutions, blending deep systems knowledge with production-operational ownership. Lin excels at encapsulating new entities and packaging them into scalable frameworks that detect corruption and enable reliable restore workflows, a niche that underscores his focus on data integrity at scale. Based in Redmond, he pairs a Stanford MS and Michigan BS in Computer Science with a pragmatic engineering leadership style that favors measurable reliability improvements and low-friction operational tooling.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Wah Yan College, Hong KongBachelor, Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor, Computer Science Engineering at University of MichiganMaster, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at Stanford University
Chinese
Stackoverflow
427reputation
30kreached
5answers
18questions
Github Skills (48)
spark-ml10
notebook10
sql-query10
kerberos10
jupyter10
autocomplete10
pyspark10
ipython10
pandas-dataframe10
livy10
media10
kernel10
binder10
jupyter-notebook10
spark9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
linchan-ms/sparkmagic
Jun 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 17 pushes, 6 branches in 5 months
clustersjupyter-notebooksparkjupyterkernels
linchan-ms/testrepo
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches, 2 tags in 1 day
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