Di Lin
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Minhang District, Shanghai, China
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Top SchoolDi Lin is a software engineer with seven years of experience building developer tools and IoT-focused experiences at Microsoft, currently on the Cloud+AI Visual Studio team. He has hands-on full-stack and back-end expertise, contributing to high-profile open-source projects such as the VS Code Arduino extension and Microsoft Teams Toolkit, where he implemented authentication flows, SSO validation, and serial/USB improvements. Comfortable across Azure, VS Code extensions, and embedded IoT tooling, he connects cloud services to device workflows to improve end-to-end developer experience. Previously he built large-scale smart security data pipelines during an R&D internship, demonstrating comfort with high-throughput, production systems. Based in Shanghai and trained at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, he blends practical engineering with open-source collaboration to solve real developer and IoT problems.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician, Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Github Skills (40)
unit-testing10
azuread10
javascript10
user-authentication10
authentication10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
azure-active-directory10
active-directory10
typescript-types10
jwt10
microsoft-teams10
nodejs10
typescripts10
serial-communication10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
OfficeDev/microsoft-365-agents-toolkit-samples
Apr 2021 - May 2022
Scenario-focused sample applications that help you get started with building Microsoft Teams App.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:60 reviews, 28 commits, 33 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Di implemented authentication flows using MSAL for multiple Microsoft Teams app samples, including the "todoSampleReactTabMsGraph", "hello-world-tab-with-backend", "todo-list-with-Azure-backend-M365", "hello-world-tab", and "todo-list-with-Azure-backend" examples. These changes involved modifying `auth-start.html` and `auth-end.html` files to facilitate the authentication process within the Teams environment. The user also updated dependencies and fixed build errors related to the authentication code flow implementations. They also removed AAD plugin files across various projects.
microsoft-teams
microsoft/vscode-arduino
Mar 2020 - Sep 2020
Visual Studio Code extension for Arduino
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 43 commits, 22 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Di primarily focused on improving the Arduino extension for VS Code. Their work involved migrating dependencies like `node-usb-native` to modern replacements such as `serialport` and `node-usb-native`, enhancing serial port functionality, and addressing TSLint and other code quality issues. They made changes to core files such as `serialportctrl.ts`, `serialMonitor.ts`, and others, while also working on debugging and USB auto-detection.
arduinovisual-studio-code-extension
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