Tommy Lin
Principal Engineer at E Ink Corporation
Taipei, Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolTommy Lin is a Principal Engineer based in Taipei with 12 years of hands-on experience designing firmware and embedded systems for display and imaging products across companies like E Ink, Compal, and Switron. He combines deep low-level expertise in C, assembly, Linux drivers/AP, and SoC firmware with practical hardware skills from power and PCB debugging to AutoCAD-based design. At E Ink he drives complex engineering for electronic-paper products while earlier roles show a pattern of shipping customer-focused demos and iterative firmware improvements for LCD/TV and camera platforms. Tommy also contributed to Apple’s ResearchKit by adding touch-tracking features for iOS, reflecting an ability to cross between embedded systems and mobile user-facing projects. He holds an EEE degree from National Taipei University of Technology and brings a pragmatic, test-driven approach to turning hardware constraints into robust product features.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Two-year college of technology, Information Engineering, Two-year college of technology, Information Engineering at China University of Science and TechnologySenior high vocational school, Information Engineering, Senior high vocational school, Information Engineering at • National Tam-Shui Commercial Industrial Vocational Senior High Schoolbachelor of science, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, bachelor of science, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at National Taipei University of Technology
Github Skills (5)
researchkit10
swift10
uikit10
gesture-recognition10
ios10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ResearchKit/ResearchKit
Nov 2018 - May 2019
ResearchKit is an open source software framework that makes it easy to create apps for medical research or for other research projects.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:50 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 6 months
Contributions summary:Tommy's contributions focused on implementing touch ability features within the ResearchKit framework for iOS. They added new data models, views, and view controllers to capture and process touch events like taps, long presses, swipes, pinches, and rotations, creating classes for each type of gesture. Furthermore, they worked on integrating a touch tracker to capture and record touch data for the touch ability trials and steps. The user also refined several existing components and added internationalization for the app.
open-source-softwareresearchkitmedicalsoftware-framework
PersonalTouchProjects/PersonalTouch
Jun 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:164 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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