Luca Lin
Engineering at Databento
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorLuca Lin is an engineering leader with 11 years building high-performance systems for finance and data platforms, currently serving as a chief packet alchemist at Databento in San Francisco. He has deep quantitative roots in physics and math and has led engineering and CTO roles across futures, equities, options, and FX, blending research-grade techniques with production-grade systems. As a partner at Domeyard LP he pursued stochastic optimization, ML, computational linguistics, database kernels, and HPC—skills he applies to low-latency data pipelines and developer tooling for distributed environments. His work has been recognized across industry outlets from Forbes and the Financial Times to IEEE Spectrum, reflecting both entrepreneurial impact and technical credibility. Known for breaking and rebuilding systems to make them “fly,” he pairs hands-on packet- and protocol-level expertise with a track record of shipping resilient, scalable infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (95)
historical10
backend10
jwt10
api9
web-application9
json-schema9
fastapi9
swagger9
python-client9
openapi9
docker9
tcp9
sqlalchemy9
react9
binder9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rkrn/chatbot
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
rkrn/play
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:27 pushes in 23 days
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