Sean Lin
Software Engineer at Foursquare
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Lin is a results-driven software and data engineer with 11 years of cross-disciplinary experience, currently building scalable systems at Foursquare from his base in Seattle. He has five years focused on data engineering—designing and maintaining Spark, Hadoop, and AWS-based pipelines—and a strong software development foundation informed by hardware and digital IC design work that accelerated DNA sequencing algorithms on FPGA. Sean’s research at the University of Washington produced DeepTracer, a cryo-EM protein structure prediction tool that combined ML models, a Flask/MongoDB backend, and automated workflows for rapid coronavirus-related updates. Comfortable spanning low-level hardware optimizations to cloud-native data architectures, he brings a pragmatic eye for performance bottlenecks and reproducible science. Seeking to step into senior engineering roles, he blends production-grade delivery with domain fluency in bioinformatics and system software that isn’t obvious from a typical data engineer resume.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science and Software Engineering, 3.93/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science and Software Engineering, 3.93/4.0 at University of WashingtonMaster of Science - MS, Electronics Engineering, 3.54/4.3, Master of Science - MS, Electronics Engineering, 3.54/4.3 at National Taiwan UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Double Major), 3.86/4.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Double Major), 3.86/4.0 at National Cheng Kung University
taiwanese mandarin, English, Japanese, Spanish, German
Github Skills (25)
pow5
machine-learning5
data-science4
deep-learning4
threaded3
organize3
fixed-point2
hardware2
sega-genesis2
low-level2
iota2
pytorch2
bit2
64-bit2
graph1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sean-lin-tw/Machine-Learning-Essentials
Oct 2016 - Jul 2022
Machine learning practices from the course by Prof. Hung-Yi Lee at National Taiwan University.
Contributions:2 releases, 47 commits, 1 PR in 5 years 9 months
nationalleetaiwandata-sciencedeep-learning
jacky6016/Bioinformatic-Toolkit
Apr 2017 - Dec 2021
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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