Zef Lin
Software Engineer at Fabi.ai
Summary
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RockstarZef Lin is a software engineer with eight years of hands-on experience, currently a founding engineer at fabi-ai and an active contributor to notable open-source projects. He focuses on backend systems, demonstrated by substantive work on Apache Superset—migrating and deprecating APIs, managing database connection testing flows, and improving ownership and permission logic across front- and back-end boundaries. Comfortable operating in startup environments, Zef combines pragmatic refactoring with careful migration strategies to keep platforms stable while evolving APIs. Based in China, he brings a blend of production-grade engineering and open-source collaboration that helps bridge legacy systems to modern API designs.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (21)
python10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
flask-ask10
apache-superset10
api10
backend10
flask10
api-design9
restful-api9
data-visualizations9
api-rest9
data-visualisation9
rest-api9
data-visualization9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apache/superset
May 2022 - Sep 2022
Apache Superset is a Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:92 reviews, 4 commits, 30 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Zef primarily contributed to the backend of the Apache Superset platform. Their work included deprecating and migrating API endpoints, specifically focusing on database connection testing and available domain management, migrating functionality from older APIs to the newer API v1. Furthermore, the user modified the codebase related to active user filtering within the context of chart and dashboard ownership, affecting components in both the front-end and back-end. Additional changes involved code refactoring and reversion of a previous permission refactoring.
pythonapache-supersetflaskbusiness-analyticsbusiness-intelligence
zephyring/Workflow
Jul 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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