Summary
Sean Lin is a results-driven software and data engineer with 11 years of cross-disciplinary experience, currently building scalable systems at Foursquare from his base in Seattle. He has five years focused on data engineering—designing and maintaining Spark, Hadoop, and AWS-based pipelines—and a strong software development foundation informed by hardware and digital IC design work that accelerated DNA sequencing algorithms on FPGA. Sean’s research at the University of Washington produced DeepTracer, a cryo-EM protein structure prediction tool that combined ML models, a Flask/MongoDB backend, and automated workflows for rapid coronavirus-related updates. Comfortable spanning low-level hardware optimizations to cloud-native data architectures, he brings a pragmatic eye for performance bottlenecks and reproducible science. Seeking to step into senior engineering roles, he blends production-grade delivery with domain fluency in bioinformatics and system software that isn’t obvious from a typical data engineer resume.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science - MS, Data Science and Database, Master of Computer Science - MS, Data Science and Database at Rice University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at National Tsing Hua University
Chinese, English