Yueh-hsun Lin
Software Engineer at Apple
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYueh-hsun Lin is a software engineer with a decade-plus blend of research and product engineering focused on network and computer security, currently at Apple in Mountain View. He has designed and implemented large-scale encryption infrastructure (TDE) and end-to-end mobile encryption at JD.com, integrated HSMs and SGX, and driven security features across Samsung products including secure pairing and embedded SE firewalls. His background spans applied cryptography, protocol design, pentesting, and trustworthy execution environments for both mobile and cloud, with deep experience making systems compatible with national crypto standards. An active open-source contributor and Nixpkgs committer, he has improved tooling for reproducible user environments and contributed backend features and test coverage to the prominent ROOT data analysis project. Notably, his academic work produced high-performance cryptographic implementations (GPU/RNS and AES-NI optimizations) that informed later production designs, reflecting a rare combination of low-level optimization and large-scale security architecture.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at National Tsing Hua University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (20)
root-view10
c-language10
nix10
testing10
configuration-management10
statistics10
nixos10
dotfile10
document-root10
cprogramming-language10
data-analysis10
math9
mathematics9
cling8
flake8
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
nix-community/home-manager
Jun 2020 - Jun 2022
Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 9 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Yueh-hsun primarily contributed to enhancing the home-manager configuration management system. They added and updated modules, including a new module for Java, and improved the handling of completion scripts for various shells. The user also implemented code improvements such as removal of trailing whitespace and tabs. Additionally, the user worked on a testing-related fix to prevent impurities.
nix-dotfilesnixosmaintainerhome-managerdotfiles
root-project/root
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
The official repository for ROOT: analyzing, storing and visualizing big data, scientifically
Role in this project:Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 13 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Yueh-hsun contributed to the ROOT project by implementing new features and expanding test coverage within the `ROOT::VecOps` module. Their work included adding parameters to existing functions like `Sum` and `Mean` and enhancing testing for `RVec<int>` and `RVec<ROOT::Math::PtEtaPhiMVector>` data types. Furthermore, the user corrected documentation formatting and example code snippets, ensuring accuracy and clarity for developers using the library.
pythonroot-cernmathematicsc-plus-plusscientific-visualization
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