Summary
Yujia Lin is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building full-stack systems across fintech, startups, and IoT, currently driving IVR routing and migration work at Capital One. Known for turning legacy telephony and VXML systems into modern, API-driven services, Yujia designed monitoring and Kafka-based logging platforms at Discover that improved operational visibility and saved significant OPEX. He has a strong track record shipping end-to-end products—from ERP and React Native tools that boosted restaurant throughput to AWS-hosted dashboards and GitHub automation that tightened CI/CD workflows. Based in Fremont, CA, he pairs pragmatic engineering with an operator’s mindset, leading small teams to solve high-stakes migration and real-time routing challenges with measurable impact. A lifelong hacker at heart (“Know it, then hack it”), he combines academic rigor (MS in CS) with startup grit from founding a Y Combinator–trained venture.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at San Francisco Bay University
Chinese, English, Japanese