Lin Yang
Principle Software Engineer at Highnote
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLin Yang is a Principal Software Engineer based in San Diego with 13–15 years of hands-on experience building and hardening large payment processing platforms. Over the last decade he has led teams at Braintree, Galileo, and Highnote to tackle distributed systems design, cloud migrations with zero downtime, security and compliance for PCI/PII, and performance at scale. He combines a love of writing elegant code with a passion for ruthless refactoring and automation that eliminates technical debt and boosts developer productivity. His work on non-card payment stacks, tokenization, smart routing, and real-time monitoring has materially increased merchant approval rates and recovered tens of millions in revenue. Equally comfortable mentoring engineers and shipping critical integrations under tight timelines, he also contributes tools and practices back to the engineering community. Pragmatic, curious, and team-oriented, Lin seeks better tools for the job and isn't afraid to build them when they don't exist.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science and Technology, BS, Computer Science and Technology at Xi'an Jiaotong University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (70)
render10
internet10
pynamodb10
dynamodb10
plantuml10
gitlab10
decoder10
encoder-decoder10
encoder9
common-expression-language9
object-model9
collaboration9
braintree9
cc9
json9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
lyang/braintree-rails
Sep 2012 - Jul 2022
Contributions:241 commits, 5 PRs, 11 pushes in 10 years
bytestreamparser/bytestreamparser-core
Dec 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:11 releases, 54 PRs, 134 pushes in 3 months
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