# Tony Lin > Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn Location: Mountain View, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/tonylin • Developed complex integrations with various Social Networks, emails and activesync servers at an OS level (Android) to allow enhanced account setups. • Designed and implemented Android components that allow easy and transparent Web Service consumption from several Social Networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.) to aggregate user data (eg. status and photos), as well as post status, messages, photos and videos in a quick and intuitive way. PUBLICATIONS • U.S. Pat. 7,188,312 Remote document viewing system, device, and method thereof, 2007 • WASP: An Enhanced Indoor Locationing Algorithm for a Congested Wi-Fi Environment, April 2009, Accepted by MELT 2009 • Sense Information, July 2009, Accepted by Ubicomp 2009 Specialties: Programming Languages: Java, C/C++, Ruby on Rails, Python, HTML/CSS, XML, JavaScript/AJAX, GWT Operating Systems: Linux (RedHat, CentOS), Windows 2000/ XP/ Vista, MS-DOS Mobile Platforms: Android, JavaME, Mobile Python (S60), WML, XHTML/Mobile CSS Applications: MySQL, Oracle 10g, Apache, Tomcat Languages: Chinese (Mandarin), English ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ LinkedIn Jan 2019 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States ### Senior Software Engineer @ LinkedIn Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | Sunnyvale ### Senior Software Engineer @ Amazon Lab126 Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 | Sunnyvale, CA ● Designed and implemented the carousel­like launcher for Android platform ● Implemented new features for Email and Calendar apps for Android platform ● Interviewed candidates and mentored new hires. ● Project lead of Amazon Email application for Android platform ● Smart Card project to provide context­aware cards related to emails ### Senior Software Engineer @ Motorola Mobility Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 * In charge of developing complex integrations with various Social Networks at an OS level (Android) to allow enhanced account setups. * Responsible for gathering information regarding several nation-wide and international ISPs and corporate active sync servers to allow email/calendar/contacts synchronization. * Designed and implemented Android components that allow easy and transparent Web Service consumption from several Social Networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.) to aggregate user data (eg. status and photos), as well as post status, messages, photos and videos in a quick and intuitive way. ### Research Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 • Research assistant of CyLab Mobility Research Center for Prof. Martin Griss • Worked on WASP, an indoor locationing project using Wi-Fi access points • Worked on MEMS, a mobile elder monitoring system using WASP and user activity detected by accelerometers • Worked on Process Enactment Tool project in extreme programming and Ruby on Rails for three months. • Worked on SenseI project, a framework over hybrid networks (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 802.15.4) and variant devices (laptops, handsets, various sensors such as SunSPOT and FireFly). ### R&D Director @ AP-Mobile Jan 2002 – Jan 2008 Co-Founder and Research and Development Director • Lead a team of 8 developers to build the AP-MOBILE Framework which provides a faster and more flexible architecture to implement mobile server applications. • Designed client side applications in JavaME. • Delivered over ten popular mobile value-added services, such as social networking and games, to the top three telecoms in Taiwan (Chunghwa, Fareaston, and Taiwan Mobile) • Delivered the social networking portal, Catch City, for Taiwan Mobile which served more than one million subscribers every day. • Delivered an integrated interactive messaging platform which accelerates the creation of two-way messaging events for mobile marketing. • Delivered an integrated interactive platform with IVR, voice recognition and two-way messaging, providing a totally new experience for mobile marketing. • Awarded Best Strategy Partner Award of Fareaston Telecom, December 2004. ### Wireless Software Engineer @ iDINI Jan 2001 – Jan 2002 • Developed the Mobile Desktop, an internet application utilized to manage and update e-mail and documents in mobile devices anywhere. • Designed and implemented a middleware to connect ViewItNow with the legacy email system of Chunghwa Telecom (October, 2001). All 10 thousand GPRS subscribers were benefited this new service for reading their internet email attachments via cell phones. ### Software Engineer @ SHININGVISION TECHNOLOGY, INC Jan 2000 – Jan 2001 • Developed software solutions to online stock trading system in C++, including quotation, trading and back-end monitoring systems. • Designed mobile stock trading system allowing people to buy or sell their stocks by their mobile phones. ## Education ### Master in Software Engineering Carnegie Mellon University ### MS in Computer Science National Taiwan University ### BS in Computer Science National Taiwan University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hplin - Portfolio: http://hplin.tw.googlepages.com/resume - Portfolio: http://www.patentgenius.com/patent/7188312.html --- Source: https://flows.cv/tonylin JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/tonylin/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12