Robert Lin
Lead Platform Engineer
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolRobert Lin is a Lead Platform Engineer based in Vancouver with nine years of experience building and operating large-scale cloud services and developer tooling at Sourcegraph. He has progressed from intern to tech lead, designing core infrastructure like billing/credits systems and a generalized platform for online services while earning multiple peer-nominated impact awards. Technically versatile, he contributes across backend, full-stack, and DevOps — from Go concurrency libraries (notably improvements to sourcegraph/conc) to Docker Compose deployment automation and Raycast UI integrations. He has a strong track record of refactoring for safety and observability, resolving data races, and shipping monitoring/telemetry stacks for production. A UBC mathematics graduate, he pairs rigorous problem-solving with a pragmatic engineering mindset and a penchant for quietly improving developer experience and deployment reliability.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
The American School in JapanBachelor of Science - BS Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics at The University of British ColumbiaMcKinnon Secondary College
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (32)
apim10
git10
javascript10
docker10
deploying10
testing10
raycast10
typescript10
docker-compose10
ui-design10
dockers10
uid10
goroutine10
automation10
go10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
sourcegraph/deploy-sourcegraph-docker
May 2020 - Dec 2022
Sourcegraph with Docker Compose deployment reference
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:43 reviews, 41 commits, 66 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Robert focused on configuring and maintaining the deployment infrastructure for Sourcegraph using Docker Compose. Their commits involved adding and configuring services such as Prometheus, cadvisor, and the OpenTelemetry collector. They also worked on pinning image versions, creating automation scripts for updating Docker tags, and modifying deployment scripts to improve the overall deployment process. These changes indicate a strong emphasis on automating and streamlining deployment workflows.
sourcegraphdeploymentdockercomposedocker-compose
sourcegraph/conc
Jan 2023 - Feb 2023
Better structured concurrency for go
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 30 reviews, 49 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the `conc` library, focusing on improving its concurrency features. Their work included fixing loop variables in tests, updating documentation for the `WithFirstError` and `WithCancelOnError` functions, and correcting spelling errors in the codebase. A significant part of the contributions involved refactoring and moving the `PanicCatcher` to a separate package. The user also worked on introducing and implementing an `Iterator` with configurable concurrency.
golangconcurrencystructuredpoolstructured-concurrency
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