Yida Lin
Software Engineer at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolYida Lin is a software engineer based in Sunnyvale with nine years of experience building production systems, currently working on Google Cloud Platform Accelerators and Networking. Previously at Amazon, Yida progressed from SDE intern to SDE II, contributing to Android/Fire OS platform services and cross-device UI work. His background includes research and teaching roles at Columbia University, where he developed Qt C++/Python GUIs for neuroscience experiments and taught distributed systems, giving him a strong foundation in systems, signal processing, and fault-tolerant design. Yida holds an MS in Computer Science from Columbia (3.96 GPA) and has experience bridging academic research and industrial engineering. He combines low-level systems thinking with cloud-native product delivery, comfortable moving between hardware-integrated software and large-scale cloud infrastructure. Colleagues would note his knack for translating complex distributed-systems concepts into practical, production-ready solutions.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.96/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.96/4.0 at Columbia University in the City of New YorkBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Oberlin College
Japanese, German, Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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21kreached
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Github Skills (20)
bcg10
visualization9
pyqt9
cpp9
deep-learning8
mne-python7
leanback6
optimization6
android6
focus6
android-recyclerview6
python6
algorithm6
qt5
multimodal3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
labstreaminglayer/App-SigVisualizer
Jul 2018 - Nov 2020
PyQt5 application for real time signal visualization
Contributions:85 commits, 17 PRs, 64 pushes in 2 years 4 months
pyqtvisualizationlabstreaminglayereeglsl
xdf-modules/libxdf
Dec 2016 - Sep 2021
C++ library for loading XDF files
Contributions:11 releases, 9 reviews, 85 commits in 4 years 10 months
cppxdfsigviewer
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