# Silin Na

> Principal Software Engineer at Kellton

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

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I am a detail-oriented Engineering adventurer who embarks on various quests to craft quality applications.

I gather information and hear a lot of news when I'm in town with other Engineering folks. Python & Django are my lightning-fast-dual-wielded blade. React/JS are my handy daggers. My architecture spells terraform an empty field into a complex infrastructure. I deploy many spirits to delegate my tasks to finish my big picture.

Whenever I have free time, I try to deconstruct/reconstruct seasonal weapons called Golang and Java.

To be honest, I'm good with other types of weaponry. I'm a generalist. A jack of all trades. I'm an ambitious dreamer. I've seen stuffs along from my long adventure path and am excited to see what's next quest.

My character attributes:
- C language family background
- Python3/Django swordsmanship
- Seasonal mastery in Golang and Java
- UNIX/OS X charms
- Full web skill tree in HTML/CSS/JavaScript
- Auxiliary skill tree in ES6/React.js/React Native/Webpack/Node.js
- PostgreSQL ledger
- Data engineering talisman with symbols of Kafka and Spark
- Proud ownership of Dockerized property in Kubernetes neighborhood on Cloud planet
- Telling stories on REST API vs GraphQL/How to live just fine in Cloud platform realm/Application architecture/Other battle dairies

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Kellton
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
An engineering lead on projects
- Building/Scaling SaaS products with a sizable technical autonomy
- Leading client engagements
- Designing high-level systems from:
  * Modular monoliths with cloud computing
  * Data warehouse, Data workflow, Data application/service
- Enabling individual contributors on the project via:
  * Translating high-level goal into technical details & specs
  * Service engagement
  * Technical project ticket management
  * Code reviews
  * Operating cloud environments and services
  * Asserting/Assisting CI/CD process

A main contributor for Center of Excellence in Data Engineering & Analytics Charter
- Assisting VP of Digital Integration to cultivate/grow Data Engineering & Analytics team
- Engineering mentorship and guidance on Data Engineering domains
- Advisory support on Data Engineering architecture design

### Technical Architect @ Tivix, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
A technical lead role in engineering projects
- Architecting overall project and high-level system design including:
* Modular monoliths
* Data pipelines
* Cloud-infra patterns with managed services (AWS, GCP, Docker Cloud)

- Supervising contributors in the project with designed architecture and approaches:
* Code reviews
* Translating high-level goal into technical details & specs
* Managing cloud environments and services
* Asserting/Assisting CI/CD process
* Technical project ticket management

- Contributing holistically to the team by transfer of technical knowledge and engineering mentorship

### Software Engineer @ Tivix, Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Tivix is a innovation engineering firm headquartered in Silicon Valley (San Francisco), with additional offices in New York City (Brooklyn), Europe (London + Wroclaw), and the Pacific Northwest (Portland).

With the agile methodologies, I have developed many web (both Python/Django and JS frontend + API backend pair) and cloud applications operating on AWS and GCP.

We believe in crafting innovative digital products and help out our clients' need and strategies.

* HTML5/JavaScript/LESS/Bootstrap/jQuery/AngularJS
* Python/Django/Fabric/PIP/Virtualenv/Ansible/AWS/Vagrant/Docker/GCP/Kubernetes/Codefresh
* PostgreSQL/MySQL
* Git/Github/CircleCI
* Android/iOS

### Independent Contractor @ Tivix, Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area
I have developed a native Android application and worked with Django web framework to develop backend features in API and page rendering.


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
South Dakota State University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/n1207n
- Portfolio: https://silin.substack.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-12