Summary
Zhiqi Lin is a software engineer with nine years of experience who blends a strong academic foundation in environmental science and landscape design with hands-on backend and systems development. Currently at Freenome and pursuing an M.S. in Computer Science at Northeastern, she is proficient in Java, Python, C++, and both relational and NoSQL databases, and has implemented core RDBMS components (buffer pool manager, B+-tree indexer, query engine) inspired by CMU’s BusTub. She discovered computer science through air-monitoring data analysis, which gives her a rare cross-disciplinary perspective on data-driven problems and systems design. Comfortable shipping Express-based services on Heroku and contributing to complex backend projects, she also brings practiced team coordination, time management, and conflict-resolution skills from industry and research roles.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
M.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at Northeastern University
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Chinese, Chinese, English