Maokai Lin
Co-Founder And CTO at Smarking Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMaokai Lin is a PhD-trained engineering and data science leader with 13 years of experience, co-founding and serving as CTO of Smarking where he architects cloud-native, Python-driven platforms that power real-time parking analytics, anomaly detection, and dynamic pricing across thousands of urban locations. He led development of a robust ETL framework that scales 500+ concurrent jobs, guided Postgres sharding for billions of transactions, and runs 1k+ ML tasks per hour using serverless infrastructure. Maokai pairs rigorous research chops from MIT with hands-on systems experience—delivering 85–90%+ forecasting accuracy, an anomaly detector with >95% recall, and a dynamic pricing engine that increased online revenue by 40%+ for most deployed sites. Comfortable spanning data engineering, ML, backend and frontend migrations, he balances deep technical ownership with customer-focused product thinking. Fueled by tea and podcasts, he thrives on turning fragmented, unstable data sources into reliable decision systems for a $100B transportation market.
13 years of coding experience
PhD Operations Research, PhD Operations Research at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science Industrial Engineering, Bachelor of Science Industrial Engineering at Tsinghua University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (4)
directions7
emacs4
nodejs4
package-control2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MaokaiLin/node-ac
Mar 2013 - Oct 2014
Contributions:8 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 7 months
emacsnode-jsnodejsauto-complete
MaokaiLin/vscode-smart-cursor-undo
Mar 2019 - Nov 2022
Smarter cursor undo that bundles similar cursor movements together for cursor undo.
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
similarsmartermovementscursorscursor
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