# Lucas Lin

> Engineering at Airbnb

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/lucaslin

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Airbnb
Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco, California
Tech lead for Airbnb’s web listing detail pages across Stays, Experiences, and Services

### Software Engineer @ Citadel LLC
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Chicago, Illinois
Data Science & Engineering
Central Data Organization - Data Acquisition and Engineering
Global Quantitative Strategies
— Architected and prototyped distributed web data acquisition platform
— Collaborated on  schema migration system for use with SQL Server and Vertica
— Designed and built custom UI for internal dataset credential management system

### Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Greater Seattle Area
Engineer  on the Data Insights team providing business intelligence for Data Group services (SQL Server, HDInsight, Azure Search, DocDB, and others)
— Proposed idea to management, developed prototype, and secured director approval for new user-facing product leveraging  team’s existing back-end ML infrastructure
— Mentored intern with limited related experience and oversaw project from inception to delivery of a product being used daily by teams across the Data Group
— Team subject-matter expert for front-end and Azure Search (hosted Elasticsearch); Contributed to and advised multiple projects as well as gave presentations
— Owned and architected front-end of platform that analyzes sentiment and topics across social channels (e.g. StackOverflow) for Data Group services and their competitors
— Microsoft Patent Award—Filed patent (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9898457B1) as a co-inventor for a proprietary NLP machine learning system to detect and separate code from text; 
— Created a reusable visualization system by integrating the open-source charting library NVD3 into AngularJS directives and used it to create various dashboards for Data Group teams, allowing them to analyze and react to their business data
— PM for first four months on SQL Server build system focused on streamlining the gated check-in system as well as improving the proprietary Visual Studio check-in extension

### Software Developer @ Moonlyt
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Greater New York City Area
Worked with small team to develop Moonlyt.com, an online tutoring site with nearly 500 tutors and over 700 total users
— Led development of a proprietary collaborative whiteboard using HTML5 canvas along with Node.js and Socket.io; Implemented a multi-stack client-side system to allow synchronized undoing and redoing of each user’s changes
— Headed implementation of introduction videos on user profiles using YouTube API
— Led streamlining of user signup by creating feature to auto-fill information from their LinkedIn profiles using the LinkedIn API

### Research Assistant @ Systems Neuroscience of Psychopathology Laboratory
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Cambridge, MA
Studied psychopaths, aggression, and impulsivity
— Acted as a confederate in an aggression study, pretending to be a fellow participant in order to serve as a control
— Compiled phenotypic data and brain images from open database to test relation between brain structure and impulsivity

### Software Developer @ Moonlyt
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | New York City
Worked for startup to create Moonlyt.com
— Utilized primarily Ruby on Rails and Javascript (along with HTML/CSS)
— Led implementation of payment system using Amazon, Stripe, and PayPal API’s
— Led implementation of video chat system using Opentok API


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Harvard University

### Stanford University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lucas-r-lin

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Last updated: 2026-03-22