Zhihao Lin
Senior Engineering Manager at YScope
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolZhihao Lin is a Senior Engineering Manager at YScope with six years of hands-on experience building high-performance system software, kernel-level components, and large-scale C++ projects. He holds a MASc from the University of Toronto and has a strong research background in static analysis and LLVM-based tooling, having authored ExLogAnalysis to find logging errors in large C/C++ codebases. At YScope he drove deployment of a log compression platform across over a million vehicles, designed an efficient KV-IR for semi-structured logs, and built widely used CLP FFIs including a Python C-extension deployed in production at Uber. He pairs deep low-level expertise (OS kernels, compiler middle-end techniques, Python runtime C internals) with cloud and product-minded architecture, and regularly teaches and mentors students in operating systems and systems programming. His track record includes several top departmental awards and record-breaking contest wins (2400x speedup in an optimization competition), reflecting a blend of rigorous research, competitive engineering, and production impact.
5 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Engineering at Electrical & Computer Engineering at U of TMaster of Applied Science Computer Engineering, Master of Applied Science Computer Engineering at University of Toronto
Github Skills (65)
compression10
modular10
clp10
appveyor10
analytics10
travis-ci10
searching10
log-parser10
logging10
stream9
circleci9
encoding9
build-automation9
clang9
azure-pipelines9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
LinZhihao-723/clp
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
Compressed Log Processor (CLP) is a free tool capable of compressing text logs and searching the compressed logs without decompression.
Contributions:27 PRs, 486 pushes, 93 branches in 1 year 6 months
y-scope/clp-ffi-py
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
clp-ffi-py is a Python library to encode log messages with CLP, and work with the encoded messages using a foreign function interface (FFI).
Contributions:256 reviews, 194 PRs, 87 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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