David Lin
Senior Backend Engineer
Specialized in data reliability, scalable pipelines, and engineering efficiency. Passionate about tackling complex architecture bottlenecks in high-caliber teams.
I am planning to relocate to the US by September 2027. Currently, I am actively seeking US Remote or Global Remote software engineering opportunities in forward-thinking teams that value engineering excellence and scalable systems.
Skills
Languages & Environment
Frameworks & Libs
Databases & Infra
Tools & Automation
Work Experience
- Architecture & Scaling: Designed and implemented a high-concurrency, multi-threaded crawler architecture (WeaverCore), drastically reducing data extraction and processing time from weeks to hours.
- Developer Experience (DX) & CI/CD: Engineered an automated CI/CD pipeline using semantic-release and openapi-ts to dynamically generate and publish TypeScript SDKs directly from Swagger specs, ensuring end-to-end type safety and eliminating manual API integration overhead.
- System Reliability: Architected a Redis-based proxy management system to securely distribute resources across high-concurrency processes, ensuring 99.9% system stability during peak loads.
- Performance Optimization: Developed and integrated HTTP streaming APIs to enable partial frontend rendering, significantly reducing perceived latency and optimizing overall user experience.
- Data Quality Assurance: Implemented robust validation, retry, and consistency-check mechanisms to prevent invalid or corrupted data from reaching production databases.
- Maintainability: Refactored core data workflows (Argus-v2) and unified API coding conventions, substantially lowering debugging overhead and long-term maintenance costs.
- Grafana Alert System: Delivered a comprehensive alert mechanism covering ~90% of environment sync status, built from a 30% prototype to full functionality in 16 h, successfully detecting several test environments that had been abnormal for months.
- Product Delivery: Led the end-to-end development of internal automation tools from 0 to 1, translating complex cross-functional requirements into scalable system designs.
- System Architecture: Architected a highly extensible plugin-based system, enabling seamless new feature deployments without requiring full-system redeployments or downtime.
- Microservices Integration: Built and maintained robust platform tools utilizing a microservices architecture, driving faster iteration cycles and independent service scaling.
- Technical Leadership: Spearheaded comprehensive technical strategy and product design initiatives for an early-stage education-focused technology startup.
- Project Delivery: Led the engineering and product team to successfully secure 1st place in the prestigious Zhongshan Startup Container Competition.
The T-Shaped Paradigm & Education
CTO Pedigree & Business Alignment
Experienced as a founder and tech lead, with the core capability to translate business visions into technical roadmaps. Deeply understand engineering trade-offs under limited resources, focusing on delivering software architectures of real business value rather than blindly introducing unnecessary system complexity.
Political Science Structural Logic
Political science is fundamentally the structured study of system design, constraints, and strategic games. This academic training has cultivated a deep habit of systems thinking, allowing me to build a macroscopic topological perspective and rigorous qualitative analysis when analyzing distributed transaction bottlenecks, microservice constraints, and multi-threaded race conditions.
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science
National Cheng Kung University | Tainan, Taiwan
Contact Me
If you are interested in my work, or want to discuss remote opportunities, please feel free to drop me a message!