Summary
Qia Lin is a pragmatic software engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building backend systems, APIs, and performance-critical components, currently based in Seattle. With an MS in Computer Science from Northeastern and a BS from Penn State, she has shipped production-grade RESTful APIs using Node.js and hardened them with OAuth2 and rate-limiting to measurably improve security and latency. Her background spans full-stack projects—a self-built Flask/MySQL bookstore DBMS and a Linux-deployed C filesystem with LRU cache—alongside machine learning and computer vision work from her undergraduate capstone. She has interned at Microsoft where she contributed to scalable backend services and optimized multi-threaded, networked applications, and later led backend engineering at Eskuad integrating data partners and boosting data exchange efficiency. Colleagues describe her as detail-oriented and quietly curious, often combining systems-level thinking with practical product-focused engineering.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Penn State University
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Guangzhou Xiangjiang International High School
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Northeastern University
English, Chinese