Summary
Leon Lin is a Software Development Engineer with 10 years of experience focused on distributed systems, databases, data analytics engines, and machine learning infrastructure. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he currently contributes to AWS EMR, working on Apache Spark and on-the-fly transformations to optimize large-scale analytics workloads. His background includes EMR optimization as an intern and hands-on backend work for environmental monitoring projects, reflecting a mix of cloud-scale engineering and mission-driven product development. Leon’s academic foundation from UC Santa Cruz and UC San Diego in computer science complements practical experience across university IT services and research initiatives, and he brings a knack for translating research prototypes into production-ready data pipelines.
10 years of coding experience