Ted Lin
Distinguished Engineer at Sonos, Inc.
Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTed Lin is a Distinguished Engineer with 16 years of experience building robust firmware and system software, currently shaping Sonos devices from application to system-level firmware. His background spans high-availability and fault-tolerant systems at Marathon (Citrix XenServer) and deep platform work at IBM on zSeries/TPF, giving him rare expertise across embedded Linux, hypervisors, kernel internals, and mainframe ecosystems. He holds a CS MS from Stanford and a BS from Carnegie Mellon, and began his career blending engineering with teaching and technical authorship on XML. Known for translating low-level systems complexity into reliable production products, he brings both breadth across platforms and a knack for shipping resilient, field-tested software.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon UniversityMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (100)
firmware10
telegraf10
grafana10
pwm10
arm10
xpath10
influxdb10
temperature10
monitoring10
mqtt10
controlling10
keyboard10
avr10
golang10
json10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kitlaan/stardewplanner
Jul 2016 - Mar 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
stardewplannerfarmvalley
kitlaan/qmk_firmware
Feb 2020 - Mar 2023
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Contributions:1 PR, 32 pushes, 96 branches in 3 years 1 month
rp2040nrf52840firmwareavratmel
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