Victor Lin
Senior Engineering Manager Of Cloud Engineering at Hacker Noon
Millbrae, California, United States
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Top SchoolVictor Lin is a Senior Engineering Manager of Cloud Engineering with a decade of experience building and operating large-scale infrastructure, currently leading core and data infra teams at Houzz. He specializes in optimizing cloud performance, cost, and reliability—driving migrations to AWS RDS and EKS, achieving 99.9%+ uptime, and cutting cloud spend ~20% through RI utilization, autoscaling, Graviton conversions, and other efficiency efforts. A hands-on leader who rose through staff and senior engineering roles, he blends software, data, and ops expertise (Kafka, Prometheus, Terraform, ArgoCD, Ansible) to automate and simplify complex systems. Victor also drives security and compliance improvements, GDPR pipelines, and in-house monitoring while mentoring engineers and managing vendor relationships. Trained as an electrical engineer with a background in automation and semiconductor yield improvements, he pairs rigorous engineering discipline with a persistent “keep walking” mindset for continuous improvement.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Certified Business/Commerce General, Certified Business/Commerce General at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science Electrical and Control Engineering, Bachelor of Science Electrical and Control Engineering at National Chiao Tung UniversityMaster of Science Electrical Engineering, Master of Science Electrical Engineering at University of Pennsylvania
English
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Github Skills (45)
javascript10
css10
codebase10
storage10
certification10
math10
programming-tools10
nodejs10
react10
high-availability9
zipkin9
observability9
phabricator9
monitoring9
prometheus-exporter9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
victorlin-houzz/elements-of-programming-interviews-in-ruby
Oct 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:70 commits, 69 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
victorlin-houzz/fullstack-pinitt
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:99 commits, 74 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
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