Lin Zhu
Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning at Pinterest
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolLin Zhu is a senior staff machine learning engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11+ years applying ML to recommendation systems, search, NLP, knowledge graphs and large language models. She has led cross-functional teams at LinkedIn and Pinterest—most recently as tech lead for notifications—building production recommender and knowledge-graph systems that power personalization at scale. Lin combines research-grade modeling (GNNs, skill embeddings, LTR) with hands-on engineering for low-latency, high-throughput services, drawing on early experience building high-concurrency systems at Xiaomi and product-focused tools for e-commerce sellers. Notably, she drove LinkedIn’s member skills standardization and knowledge-graph efforts across 20+ engineers, a blend of leadership and deep technical ownership that consistently turns complex ML research into reliable production features.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Technology, Master’s Degree Computer Technology at Zhejiang University
Github Skills (77)
opensearch10
elasticsearch10
redis-client10
elasticsearch-plugin10
lucene10
meilisearch10
search-engine10
analyzer10
java-client10
redisearch10
java10
elasticsearch-client10
dictionary10
redis10
restful10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ishare/workflow
May 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 20 days
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.