Summary
Wei-tsung Lin is a Lead Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce with a Ph.D. in computer science and 12 years of experience building production-grade distributed and event-driven systems. He blends research rigor with engineering execution, having first-authored papers at top IEEE/ACM venues while shipping serverless, pub/sub, and geo-replicated log systems evaluated in real-world applications. His work spans Raft, DHT/Chord, event tracing, and function-as-a-service platforms, and he has demonstrated low-latency, large-scale designs such as logarithmic topic queries and sub-second invocation latencies for IoT and multi-cloud deployments. Notably, he has applied research prototypes to production services at Salesforce and UCSB, and engineered tools for runtime root-cause analysis and near-zero-overhead tracing across wide-area settings. Based in Santa Barbara, he combines deep systems knowledge with practical cloud-native experience across containers, serverless, and event systems.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at National Tsing Hua University
English, Chinese