Shelly Lin
System Manager at KaiOS Technologies, Inc.
Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolShelly Lin is a senior systems engineer and manager based in Taiwan with 13 years’ experience building OS platforms for mobile and IoT devices and an earlier background in mobile game development. She combines hands-on platform and API design—especially web APIs, multi-threading and IPC—with cross-team leadership, project prioritization, and people management at KaiOS. Shelly has a track record of improving system performance (for example introducing Service Worker off-main-thread patterns), contributing upstream (WebIDL async iterator work tied back to Mozilla), and designing interaction modules like a virtual cursor for non-touch devices. Comfortable bridging firmware-level concerns and web developer needs, she frequently authors docs, sample code, and system overviews to accelerate partner integration. Her career blends applied research from a USC MS with practical product delivery across Mozilla, Acadine, and KaiOS, making her adept at turning platform complexity into usable developer-facing features.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Science, Computer Science, Multimedia and Creative Technologies, Masters of Science, Computer Science, Multimedia and Creative Technologies at University of Southern California (USC)Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU)
Github Skills (28)
git10
gecko10
firefox10
git-mirror10
mercurial10
bit10
mozilla10
mojolicious9
thunderbird9
firefox-addon9
perl9
derivative9
browser8
webbrowser7
fastest7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
shellylin/gaia
Apr 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:14 commits, 9 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 1 month
branchesphonerelease-managementjavascriptgaia
shellylin/gecko-dev
Jan 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 32 pushes, 6 branches in 4 months
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