Summary
Rui Lin is a software engineer with 13 years of experience building production ML and VR systems, currently contributing to server-side and on-device ML at Google (Cloud Vision and Nest). He co-founded Mirage VR to bring out-of-home, multiplayer full-body VR experiences to mainstream social and team-bonding settings, combining product vision with hands-on engineering and startup execution. Rui's background spans data mining at Yelp, VR and events engineering at Google and Facebook, and early cloud/virtualization projects—giving him strengths across ML, real-time systems, and scalable backend services. Based in Mountain View, he pairs a Waterloo CS degree with practical startup leadership and advising experience, and often thinks about how shared physical-digital experiences can drive new social platforms.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
OSSD, OSSD at John Fraser Secondary School
William Lyon Mackenzie C.I.
Bachelor of Business Administration, Bachelor of Business Administration at Wilfrid Laurier University
Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science at University of Waterloo