Lino Le Van
Co-Founder at alphaXiv
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLino Le Van is a Berkeley-educated founder and engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building backend systems and data platforms from San Francisco. As Co-Founder and CTO at alphaXiv, he blends startup leadership with deep engineering practice, having previously driven data and software engineering efforts at Gated. He’s an active open-source contributor to the prominent Deno standard library, where his fixes and feature work improved .env parsing, async retry logic, and Node compatibility—showing attention to reliability and cross-runtime interoperability. Comfortable across testing, automation, and backend services, he favors pragmatic solutions that reduce flakiness and technical debt. A fan of modern runtimes and tooling, he brings both academic rigor from UC Berkeley and a practical product focus that accelerates early-stage engineering momentum.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, EECS, Master of Engineering - MEng, EECS at University of California, BerkeleyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Saint Francis High SchoolUniversity of California Santa Cruz
English, French
Github Skills (12)
deno10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
testing10
async9
asynchronous9
nodejs8
filesystem8
fileio8
file-operations8
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
denoland/std
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
The Deno Standard Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:129 reviews, 14 commits, 67 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Lino primarily contributed to the Deno Standard Library, focusing on bug fixes and new feature implementations. Their work included resolving a crash related to empty strings in the .env parser and adding utility functions for conditional type checking in testing. They also removed obsolete code, added a retry mechanism to the async module, and updated tests for the file system and Node.js compatibility.
deno-deploydeno-modulejavascriptstandard-librarydeno
lino-levan/astral
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
A high-level puppeteer/playwright-like library for Deno
Contributions:27 releases, 84 reviews, 94 PRs in 1 year 6 months
astraldenoplaywrightpuppeteer
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