# Jin Lin

> Staff Software Engineer at Uber

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jinlin

Compiler Writer

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Uber
Jan 2019 – Present
* Improved datacenter cost efficiency and latency via PGO (profile-guided optimization) for Go.
* Improved iOS app startup performance via function and data reordering.
* Reduced iOS app code size via machine-outliner and LTO (link-time optimization) in Swift compiler.
* Improved the build time of Swift compiler via LTO and PGO.
* Improved Android app startup performance via ReDex.

### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Intel Corporation
Jan 2007 – Jan 2019
Built high performance Intel compiler as well as Intel LLVM compiler.

### Staff Software Engineer @ Sun Microsystems
Jan 2004 – Jan 2007
Built high performance Sun's Solaris compiler.

### Software Engineer @ PathScale
Jan 2003 – Jan 2004
Built high performance Open64 based Pathscale compiler.

### Research Associate @ University of Minnesota
Jan 2000 – Jan 2003
Worked on Open64 compiler.

### Research Associate @ The University of Hong Kong
Jan 1999 – Jan 1999

### Software Engineer @ Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jan 1998 – Jan 1999


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jinlin
- Portfolio: http://www.cs.umn.edu/~jin

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Last updated: 2026-04-12