Youying Lin
Software Engineer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYouying Lin is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, user-facing and backend systems across Google and Waze, currently contributing to Gmail iOS at Google in Seattle. She has a strong SRE background from Waze and deep familiarity with cloud service integrations from her prior Google work, enabling her to bridge reliability and feature development effectively. Her open-source contributions to the widely used Vega-Lite project show a penchant for front-end graphics tooling, where she improved test coverage and refactored core data/scale handling for mark types. Comfortable across mobile, cloud frameworks, and developer tooling, she combines production-grade engineering with pragmatic testing discipline. A former CSE teaching assistant, she also brings mentoring experience and clear communication of complex concepts to teams.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of Washingtonhigh school, high school at English School attached to GD Uni. of Foreign Studies
English, Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew
Github Skills (8)
javascript10
vega-lite10
testing10
visualizations9
visualization9
declarative-programming8
declarative8
charts7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vega/vega-lite
Jan 2016 - Jul 2016
A concise grammar of interactive graphics, built on Vega.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 14 PRs, 43 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Youying primarily contributed to testing and refactoring code related to the Vega-Lite library. They implemented tests for mark types, including bar, line, point, tick, and circle, ensuring the correct mark types were returned. Additionally, the user refactored code to use scale names and updated data handling, including the addition of feature and mesh support. These changes involved modifying core components and data processing within the library.
chartsinteractive-graphicsvisual-analysisplotgrammar
bobocandys/echo
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Spinnaker Eventing Service
Contributions:21 pushes in 12 days
eventingspinnaker
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