Lin Yang
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolLin Yang is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building reliable web applications, now contributing to observability at Datadog after multi-year roles at Amazon. A Ruby on Rails specialist with strong full-stack chops, Lin has a track record of shipping features end-to-end, improving product metrics via A/B experimentation, and driving event/analytics design that reduced noise by 60%. They’ve architected client-facing SaaS platforms supporting thousands of users and integrated complex two-way syncs for large datasets, demonstrating practical systems thinking beyond pure coding. Comfortable in cross-functional environments, Lin partners with product, marketing, and legal to translate business needs into maintainable, testable software. Early career experience in engineering and research gives Lin a methodical, data-driven approach to problem solving uncommon among web engineers. Based in New York, they prioritize clean, efficient code and operational quality to keep production systems robust and low-error.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Petroleum Engineering, Master's Degree Petroleum Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinHigh School, High School at Xiamen Foreign Language SchoolBachelor's Degree Petroleum Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Petroleum Engineering at The University of Tulsa
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
open-source9
javascript9
scheme8
sicp8
gift6
ruby6
react6
functional-programming5
mongodb4
css3
nodejs3
android1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
aatiyah/GiftMe
May 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:114 commits, 1 PR, 47 pushes in 3 months
reacteventscssjavascriptwishlists
darktef/darktef.github.io
Feb 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:39 commits, 49 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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