Richard Lin
Software Engineer at PayPay Corporation
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Lin is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building backend systems, currently working at PayPay after an eight-year tenure at Plaid. Trained summa cum laude in Computer Science at UCSD, he blends deep backend expertise with passion for Android and full‑stack web development, shipping production services at scale. Based in Tokyo, he brings cross-cultural experience from Silicon Valley internships to leading roles in payments and fintech infrastructure. Early leadership in robotics programming and a history of tutoring signal strong fundamentals and an aptitude for mentoring and system design.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San DiegoBellarmine College Preparatory
English, Chinese, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (27)
grades9
hammer8
design-patterns8
metadata8
hummingbird8
table-of-contents8
architecture8
redis7
markdown7
system7
react7
android-application7
android-app6
system-design6
java5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
richard1/BCP-Mobile
Jun 2013 - Sep 2014
Contributions:71 commits in 1 year 3 months
announcementsgradesandroidcheckingandroid-app
lilmissolives/lilmissolives.github.io
Jan 2018 - Dec 2024
Personal website
Contributions:2 releases, 7 PRs, 116 pushes in 7 years
reactnextjs
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