Summary
Rocky Lin is a Technical Program Manager at Google with six years framed as software leadership and a 20+ year technical career spanning roles from software engineer to chief engineer and entrepreneur. He blends hands-on engineering experience in JavaScript, React, Redux, GraphQL and Node.js with program and product delivery at scale, having led platform efforts at Microsoft, Alpine Electronics of Silicon Valley, and Google. As owner of Opaltech Systems and former director-level engineering roles, he pairs entrepreneurial instincts with operational rigor to drive cross-functional teams and complex roadmaps. An active open-source contributor, Rocky is associated with Reactime, a state-debugging tool for React apps, signaling a continued commitment to front-end developer tooling. Based in New York, he brings a practical mix of embedded/consumer electronics background and modern web stack expertise to bridge hardware-aware engineering and cloud-native product delivery.
6 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer