Yi Lin
Open Source Software Developer at The Australian National University
Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
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Top SchoolYi Lin is an open source software developer and PhD-trained computer systems researcher with 11 years of experience focused on virtual machines, operating systems, and language runtime design. As lead developer of the Rust-based Memory Management ToolKit (MMTk) at ANU since 2019, he blends metacircular VM design, portability, and compilation/translation techniques to deliver practical, high-performance tooling. He is a quick learner and productive researcher who bridges deep academic expertise with hands-on engineering, having also worked in industry as a software engineer at TracMap. Based in Dunedin, New Zealand, Yi brings a rare mix of rigorous PhD-level systems thinking and pragmatic open-source craftsmanship that accelerates both research prototypes and production-ready runtimes.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityThe University of MelbourneBachelor, Computer Science and Technology, Bachelor, Computer Science and Technology at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (77)
programming-language10
windows10
openjdk10
garbage-collection10
rust-lang10
memory-allocation10
memory-management10
linux10
julialang10
root-finding10
compiler10
rust10
science10
julia10
numerical10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mmtk/mmtk-core
Dec 2019 - Jan 2023
Memory Management ToolKit
Contributions:32 releases, 1197 reviews, 755 commits in 3 years 1 month
memory-managementmemorymmtkgarbage-collectionwindows
qinsoon/mmtk-openjdk
Feb 2022 - Jan 2025
OpenJDK binding for MMTk
Contributions:179 pushes, 53 branches in 2 years 11 months
openjdkjavammtkbinding
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