Yibin Lin
Staff Software Engineer at StartX.
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYibin Lin is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building production-grade AI systems, search infrastructure, and high-throughput application platforms across startups and Big Tech. He has led engineering and product efforts from founding Liberio and driving two startup exits to shipping Microsoft Copilot/Designer features and building Kaggle’s AI evaluation and benchmarks at Google/DeepMind. Equally comfortable in research and delivery, he holds an MS in AI/NLP from Carnegie Mellon and has shipped deep-learning serving on TPUs for Google Search. Known for tackling ambiguous problems end-to-end, he combines startup grit with large-scale engineering rigor—evident in leading a Robinhood product that drives $1B+ in annual asset inflows. Based in San Francisco and active in the StartX founder community, he blends machine learning expertise with pragmatic product and cross-functional leadership.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Information Science and Technology, Information Science and Technology at University of Science and Technology of ChinaM.S. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence & Natural Language Processing, M.S. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence & Natural Language Processing at Carnegie Mellon UniversityB.S (Honors), summa cum laude, Computer Science, B.S (Honors), summa cum laude, Computer Science at Stony Brook University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (106)
transformers10
opensearch10
language-model10
python10
azure-functions10
etl10
automation10
mlops10
deep-learning10
elasticsearch10
orchestration10
data-engineering10
scheduler10
transformer10
nlp10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
yibinlin/readings
Mar 2021 - Feb 2024
Contributions:41 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
yibinlin/yibinlin.github.io
Mar 2021 - Aug 2024
Contributions:8 pushes in 3 years 6 months
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