# Elaine Lin

> Staff Software Engineer at Figma | Trusty and reliable

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/elainelin

I'm a full stack, staff engineer with 7+ years of experience leading projects and improving efficiency. I make the codebase a better place, and I do whatever most needs to be done - "glue work" or coding.

At Figma, I led multiple work streams to safely launch the actions menu with new AI features and the UI3 redesign at Config 2024.

I am only interested in full-time remote work. I expect your team to support working mothers.

I also play ukulele. Because I was frustrated with Ultimate Guitar, I built MusicParsed, a better site for song chords with no ads and no scrolling. The site is:
- Space-efficient for uninterrupted playing.
- Useful for playing ukulele, guitar, and more.
- Open source on Github.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Figma
Jan 2022 – Present
• Led actions menu project to safely launch new AI features and UI3 at Config 2024
• Reduced P99.9 latency for all of the Ruby backend from 1.5 seconds to 1.1 seconds
• Launched figma-for-jira integration by setting up the deploy pipeline, DB, and infra
• Improved core plugin and widget functionality in Typescript and React/Redux
• Enhanced internal tool so eng can easily test frontend changes in the desktop app
• Built system for plugin/widget analytics using Snowflake, S3, Ruby, and Python

### Software Engineer @ Digit
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022
• Led initiative to replace our in-house experiment system with LaunchDarkly NodeJS SDK
  • Wrote a Medium blog post on the LaunchDarkly migration https://medium.com/p/1cc569b0d6c9
• Safely migrated data and funds for 300k users off of a deprecated banking platform
• Improved onboarding success rate from 80% to 99% using Go and node.js
• Led team to build a new onboarding flow using React Native, node.js, and Go
• Increased mobile E2E test success rate from 30% to over 90% using React Native
• Led biometrics project to reduce session length from 14 days to 15 minutes
• Integrated IDology to reduce identity verification errors from 10% to under 1%
• Mitigated the monetary impact for a $120k-loss fraud incident

### Software Engineer @ Yelp
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
• Coordinated rolling out new deploy processes for more automated and safer deploys
• Championed better system on-call processes to reduce alert fatigue for the team
• Ran joint team meeting to build consensus on deploy and on-call improvements
• Led project to update restaurant analytics emails using PHP and MySQL
• Mentored other engineers on the team to pursue public speaking and project leading
• Launched engineering initiative to upgrade Django to 1.11
• Led React/Redux project to protect core flows of the application with a PIN

### Software Engineering Intern @ Yelp
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Converted room editor from Backbone and Django templates to React/Redux
• Improved parsing reliability of reservation importer in Python
• Revised core reservation availability algorithm to account for a new Django model

### Frontend Developer @ MIT Media Lab
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
• Built frontend for a collective intelligence experiment using Django templates and jQuery
• Designed user interface for a collective intelligence experiment using Bootstrap
• Added support for multiple users using the WebSocket protocol

### Software Engineering Intern @ ERP Maestro, Inc
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Greater New York City Area
• Created new screen in the web app to manage accounts using C# and Javascript
• Helped automate user interface tests using Selenium in C#


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/elainewlin
- Website: http://elainewlin.com/

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Last updated: 2026-03-23