Yulan Lin
Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYulan Lin is a software engineer with 11 years of multidisciplinary experience, currently focused on making secure choices easier as a security infrastructure engineer at Google in Mountain View. Her background spans developer relations for Google Data Studio, Chrome/Chrome OS release security, bioinformatics, clinical research, and data analytics—bringing a rare blend of security, developer advocacy, and scientific rigor. She’s shipped backend integrations like a Google Data Studio community connector that interfaces with municipal APIs and implemented practical improvements such as app-token authentication and refactors for maintainability. Comfortable presenting to technical and non-technical audiences, she combines hands-on coding with documentation and outreach to help teams adopt secure, well-instrumented workflows.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemistry, Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemistry, Magna Cum Laude at California State University-Los Angeles
English, Chinese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
apps-script10
apim10
javascript10
api10
sankey-diagram6
google-bigquery6
visualization6
looker-studio6
data-visualization6
google-cloud-platform6
google-apps-script6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
googledatastudio/community-connectors
Apr 2018 - Mar 2019
This repository contains open source content for Google Data Studio.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Yulan primarily contributed to the development of a data connector for the Google Data Studio community. Their work involved creating and modifying JavaScript code within the `community-connectors/sfo-data` directory to fetch and format data from a third-party API (SFGov data). They also refactored the connector code for conciseness and turned off debugging features. Furthermore, the user implemented the use of an app token for authentication.
data-studiogoogle-data-studiodatadata-science
googledatastudio/experimental-visualizations
May 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:136 commits, 97 PRs, 135 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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