Evan Lin
Brand Designer at Houzz
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVictor Lin is a Senior Engineering Manager of Cloud Engineering with a decade of experience building and operating large-scale infrastructure, currently leading core and data infra teams at Houzz. He specializes in optimizing cloud performance, cost, and reliability—driving migrations to AWS RDS and EKS, achieving 99.9%+ uptime, and cutting cloud spend ~20% through RI utilization, autoscaling, Graviton conversions, and other efficiency efforts. A hands-on leader who rose through staff and senior engineering roles, he blends software, data, and ops expertise (Kafka, Prometheus, Terraform, ArgoCD, Ansible) to automate and simplify complex systems. Victor also drives security and compliance improvements, GDPR pipelines, and in-house monitoring while mentoring engineers and managing vendor relationships. Trained as an electrical engineer with a background in automation and semiconductor yield improvements, he pairs rigorous engineering discipline with a persistent “keep walking” mindset for continuous improvement.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Industrial design, Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Industrial design at Academy of Art University
Github Skills (28)
phabricator10
javascript10
svn10
css10
codebase10
certification10
storage10
math10
programming-tools10
nodejs10
react10
high-availability9
zipkin9
observability9
monitoring9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
victorlin-houzz/elements-of-programming-interviews-in-ruby
Oct 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:70 commits, 69 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
victorlin-houzz/js-CoinRush
Sep 2016 - May 2025
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 9 months
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