Yikai Lin
Senior Research Scientist at Meta
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolYikai Lin is a Senior Research Scientist at Meta with 11 years of experience designing and deploying large-scale distributed and centralized routing solutions for data centers. He leads efforts to improve control- and data-plane performance—reducing link utilization spikes, eliminating traffic imbalance, and simplifying device configurations—while also building services to manage and secure Meta’s virtual IP space. His background blends deep academic research (Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Michigan) with hands-on systems engineering at Google, Huawei, and AT&T Labs, driving features from prototype data-plane code to production deployments. Known for work across BGP, SDN, traffic engineering, and virtual-IP routing, he brings a rare combination of rigorous measurement-driven methodology and production-first pragmatism. An underappreciated strength is his track record of integrating routing services into cross-functional workflows, turning complex network abstractions into operationally simple tools.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
The Affiliated High School of South China Normal UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Communications Engineering, 3.9/4.0, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Communications Engineering, 3.9/4.0 at Beijing University of Post and TelecommunicationsDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Scienceand Engineering, 3.94/4, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Scienceand Engineering, 3.94/4 at University of Michigan
English, Chinese, mandarine
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Github Skills (53)
computer-networks10
vlan10
csharp10
objective-c9
ruby9
python9
twitch9
nfv9
php9
ospf9
grpc9
cpp9
juniper9
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Linerd/floodlight
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:172 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
Linerd/snoop-dockers
Dec 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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