Summary
Yanwen Lin is a Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn with eight years of experience building data-driven systems and AI-enabled features. A Carnegie Mellon alumnus with dual master's backgrounds in Intelligent and Information Science and Civil & Environmental Engineering, Yanwen blends rigorous research training with practical backend and Big Data expertise. Progressing from intern to staff engineer at LinkedIn, they’ve shipped scalable infrastructure and NLP tooling while contributing to open-source projects during their graduate work. Based in California, Yanwen is fluent in Python, SQL, and large-scale data engineering, and brings a multidisciplinary perspective that connects systems thinking from civil engineering to modern AI applications.
8 years of coding experience