Yishan Lin
Founder at Modern MBA
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYishan Lin is a founder-turned-product leader and full-stack engineer with nine years of experience building products at the intersection of startups and cloud infrastructure. He launched and scaled multiple ventures—from a profitable meal-delivery service and PAPIR EcoBoba (the world’s first paper straw for bubble tea) to Modern MBA, which reached over 10M views in its first year—demonstrating rare end-to-end skills from napkin sketches to international factory production and sizeable consumer traction. In product roles at HashiCorp and Mesosphere he led major product lines including Nomad, an easy-to-use orchestrator used by PagerDuty, CloudFlare, and Roblox, and contributed to improving Nomad’s public documentation and resources. Comfortable shipping both consumer businesses and developer-focused cloud software, he combines hands-on engineering, product strategy, and go-to-market experience. Based in San Francisco, he values curiosity beyond headline metrics and actively seeks conversations across disciplines—coffee on him.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Finance & Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Finance & Computer Science at Boston University
Github Skills (11)
html10
content-management-system10
website-design10
content-management10
erb10
documentation9
user-experience9
exp9
javascript8
script8
jscript8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/nomad
Mar 2019 - Jun 2020
Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 45 commits, 32 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Yishan primarily focused on updating and maintaining the project's website, specifically the resources section. Their contributions involved restructuring content, removing outdated information, and incorporating new resources such as community calls and webinars. The user also made formatting and layout adjustments, ensuring consistency with the project's design and information architecture. The work demonstrates a focus on content organization, documentation, and user experience within the context of the project's website.
consulmicroservicesvault
jessicalberto/CS411Group7
Feb 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:30 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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