Yu-jen Lin
Product Design Prototyper at Meta
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYu-Jen Lin is a product design prototyper and software engineer with 14 years of experience blending interaction engineering, UX research, and immersive experience design. He has shipped interactive installations and VR attractions for Universal Creative and prototyped experiential products at Meta and Samsung Research America, bringing theme-park scale constraints into consumer-facing design work. Trained in Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Michigan, he co-founded a campus makerspace to cultivate hands-on maker culture and teach practical prototyping. Yu-Jen’s background spans hardware-aware software, haptics, computer vision prototypes, and large-scale live deployments—skills that make him adept at turning novel interaction ideas into reliable, memorable experiences. Now based in Redmond, he seeks opportunities to create surprising, delightful interactions that bridge research and production.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan UniversityMS Human Computer Interaction, MS Human Computer Interaction at University of Michigan - School of Information
English, Chinese
Github Skills (122)
audio10
openframeworks10
unity3d10
openvr10
hololens10
linux9
opengl9
computer-vision9
reader9
cocoa9
windows9
serve9
css9
chrome9
neovim9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
SI539/tutorials
Sep 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:27 commits, 7 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year
environmentsshortdevops
yjlintw/comic-reader
Apr 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:62 releases, 277 commits, 128 PRs in 1 year 3 months
comic-readerreader
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