Tim Lin
Senior Software Engineer at BBPOS | A Stripe company
New Taipei, Taiwan
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Top SchoolTim Lin is a senior software engineer from New Taipei with over a decade of hands-on mobile engineering experience, tracing his Android roots back to Cupcake (1.5). He blends deep Android expertise with iOS and backend skills, having shipped production SDKs and apps at companies from Carousell and Amazon to BBPOS (Stripe). As an Android GDE and active open-source contributor, he has enhanced developer tooling like the popular Swimat Xcode formatter, adding hotkey support, CocoaPods integration, and preview features. Tim excels at bridging native and cross-platform stacks (React Native) and enjoys building practical tools that simplify developers' and users' lives. Outside work he’s a husband and dad, which he cites as a core motivator for creating useful, time-saving software.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Applied Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree Applied Mathematics at National Chiao Tung University
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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xcode
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code-formatting
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Github Skills (13)
swift10
xcode-plugin10
code-formatting10
cocoapods9
xcode9
java6
formatting6
android-studio6
keyboard-shortcuts6
android6
androidmanifest6
androidviewbinding6
gradle6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Jintin/Swimat
Nov 2015 - May 2021
An Xcode formatter plug-in to format your swift code.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 374 commits, 51 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Tim's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Xcode formatter plugin for Swift code. They implemented functionality for hotkey integration and refined the documentation. The user also addressed formatting issues, including typo fixes and code formatting improvements. Further work involved integrating the plugin with CocoaPods for dependency management and adding support for preview functionality.
beautifierplug-inswiftxcode-extensionxcodebuild
Jintin/KFactory
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
KFactory is a library to build simple factory patterns easily leverage on KSP(Kotlin Symbol Processing).
Contributions:1 release, 17 commits, 27 PRs in 2 months
kotlin-dslfactorykotlin-symbol-processingkotlin-multiplatformandroid
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