Yunyu Lin
Cofounder CEO at Icon
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYunyu Lin is a founder and engineering leader with nine years of experience building AI-driven products and front-end systems, currently serving as Cofounder & CEO of Scope Health after leading Applied AI at Ramp. Previously he co-founded Cohere.io to automate customer experience workflows and has hands-on engineering roots from roles at Ramp, Nuro, and Meta. He contributes to open-source mapping tooling—notably improving user interactions in Uber’s nebula.gl react-map-gl-draw module—demonstrating a focus on resilient feature dragging and selection logic in complex UIs. Based in New York, Yunyu blends product leadership with low-level interaction work, and brings a pragmatic, button-pressing mentality to shipping reliable AI and UX features at scale.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Dropped out, AB CS/Econ, Dropped out, AB CS/Econ at Duke UniversityS20, S20 at Y Combinator
Spanish, standard chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
javascript10
front-end-development10
deck-gl10
react10
webgl9
material-design6
google-cloud-platform6
google-cloud-sql6
android6
postgresql6
android-layout6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
uber/nebula.gl
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
A suite of 3D-enabled data editing overlays, suitable for deck.gl
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 4 comments in 18 days
Contributions summary:Yunyu primarily contributed to the `react-map-gl-draw` module within the `nebula.gl` repository, focusing on user interaction and feature editing. They implemented and refined pan gesture support, ensuring correct behavior when interacting with and dragging features. They also made improvements related to dragging features, making them more resilient, and refined the feature selection logic.
3duberwebgldeck-gl
yunyu/vertx-console-base
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:329 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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