Michael Lin
Co-Founder at Variance
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Lin is a founder and machine learning engineer with 15 years of experience building trust and safety systems for consumer platforms. He co-founded Variance to create a next-generation Trust & Safety platform after leading safety ML efforts at Discord and Apple, where he focused on protecting users and preventing abuse at scale. His background includes data science and anomaly detection for iCloud, giving him a strong foundation in production analytics and signal detection. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and a Georgia Tech alumnus with Y Combinator founder experience, he blends startup grit with enterprise-grade engineering. Michael is particularly skilled at turning complex safety requirements into measurable, deployable ML systems that prioritize reliability and user protection. He’s recruiting for his startup, signaling a hands-on leader who continues shipping product while scaling teams.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (17)
fortress10
multiplayer-game10
issue-tracking10
multiplayer9
colyseus9
game-development9
rewrite7
discord-js7
discord-bot7
discord6
nodejs5
python4
declarative-programming3
hidden3
typescript3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Gang-Garrison-2/Gang-Garrison-2
Jun 2014 - Oct 2014
The main repository for development and issue tracking of Gang Garrison 2
Contributions:27 commits in 4 months
issue-trackingtracking
mas-transparency/server
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:46 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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