Hao Lin

Hao Lin

Hao Lin

Machine Learning Engineer at Nextdoor

Have worked across all parts of the tech stack (frontend, backend, infrastructure) but specialized in scaling distributed systems. Currently working on the machine learning platform at Nextdoor. Interested in building impactful products

Experience

2021 — NowNextdoorSenior Machine Learning Engineer

2021 — Now

Machine learning platform team building tooling & infrastructure for feature engineering and storage, and model training, deployments, and low latency serving.

2024 — 2024SHRAPNELPrincipal Software Engineer

2024 — 2024

Platform

2019 — 2021SukiSoftware Engineer

2019 — 2021

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Worked on scaling voice streaming and audio + note storage backend to support 10x more users

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Lead backend design and implementation for major features

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Machine Learning Data Infrastructure for ASR (voice to text), intent extraction, recommendations model training

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EMR (Athenahealth, Epic, Cerner) and SSO (Okta, Google, Apple) integrations

2017 — 2019QualtricsSoftware Engineer

2017 — 2019

Greater Seattle Area

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Survey Platform responsible for rendering, collecting, and processing millions of surveys and survey responses a day

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Data Platform building real-time big data processing pipelines and analytics API layer. Scale of terabytes of data and billions of records

2016 — 2016AmgenSoftware Engineer

2016 — 2016

Developed an Android app for conducting virtual clinical trials

Education

University of California, Berkeley

Bachelor's degree