Lin Guo
Sr Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLin Guo is a senior software engineer in Sunnyvale with 15 years of experience building large-scale, production search and targeting systems. After earning a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell with six years of research on information retrieval and databases, he spent three years at Yahoo! developing Hadoop-based behavior targeting and ads systems and now focuses on search relevance at LinkedIn. He combines deep C++ research roots with extensive Java and Hadoop production experience, plus fluency in SQL, Perl, and shell scripting. Notably, his background bridges academic rigor and hands-on system design, making him adept at turning IR and DB research ideas into reliable, scalable services.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Peking UniversityPhD, Compute Science, PhD, Compute Science at Cornell University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
scalable8
scala7
machine-learning7
spark7
apache-spark6
apache6
data-science6
job-scheduler2
scheduler2
golang2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
lguo/photon-ml
Feb 2020 - May 2020
A scalable machine learning library on Apache Spark
Contributions:25 pushes, 7 branches in 3 months
xgboostscalabledata-sciencemlmachine-learning
linkedin/photon-ml
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
A scalable machine learning library on Apache Spark
Contributions:4 commits, 7 PRs, 16 comments in 1 month
scalabledata-sciencemachine-learningapachespark
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