# Peter Lin

> Builder/Engineer

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

Experienced Software Engineer, especially interested in API design, patterns, and abstractions.

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Instacart
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Instacart
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Staff Software Engineer @ Instacart
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ Instacart
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Product Engineer @ Kitchit
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014

### TA @ App Academy
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Agile Tester @ Tibra Capital
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
• Completed the company’s auto-testing framework, and created >50 auto tester scripts for automatic
system-wide regression testing.
• Created benchmark framework to benchmark the performance of the company’s trading system.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Tibra Capital
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
• Assisted in expanding the company’s automated testing framework.
• Created >10 auto tester scripts for automatic regression testing.
• Created new application to convert trading logs between text and binary formats.

### Trader @ Tibra Capital
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009
• Successfully placed through graduate program shortly after graduation.
• Passed 2 month intensive option theory and financial markets training, conducted by company CEO. • Traded index derivatives listed on exchanges in Japan, Korea and Singapore.
• Automated some trading desk activities using Excel, such as daily P&L, and dividend forecasts etc.


## Education
### ALM in IT in Software Engineering
Harvard University
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012

### Bachelor of Applied Finance in Finance
Macquarie University
Jan 2005 – Jan 2008

### App Academy
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ptrln

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Last updated: 2026-03-23