# Yinlin Zhou

> Senior Software Engineer | IC | Tech Lead | Microservices | DDD | Cloud-Infra | Hobbyist Indie Game Developer

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yinlin

As an IC, I'm self-driven and self-motivated. I collaborate effectively. I'm eager for challenges and problem solving. I'm desired to learn skills that are absent.

As a Senior Software Engineer, I'm enthusiastic about new technologies. I deliver consistent results agilely. And I level up junior engineers in the team. I was a full stack engineer worked on both frontend and backend, and am a backend engineer lately focusing on microservices architectures and cloud based products.

As a Tech Lead, I work with Products and stakeholders on roadmapping with clear iterations, milestones and definition of done defined. I propose replatforming plans with RFCs and capture tech decisions in ADRs. I guide the team through tech discussions to pursue tech agreements.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Credit Acceptance
Jan 2024 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, United States

### Senior Software Engineer (L4) | Tech Lead @ Wayfair
Jan 2016 – Jan 2024 | Boston, Massachusetts
- Drove tech transformation initiatives that decoupled business domains from one big monolith to their own microservices.
- Led, architected and built large scale pricing service from scratch for Storefront that serves all customer facing pricing needs (both e-commerce and retails), with high availability achieving 3-9s SLOs, which serves 6k+ requests/second on average daily, without taking big sales events into account.
- Enabled a new pricing model for suppliers and eliminated price discrepancy issues by properly encapsulating business logic into corresponding domains and establishing a single source of truth for accessing such logic and data.
- Effectively worked with Product and TPM partners and stakeholders on rolling out high impact services.
- Effectively collaborated with Product partners in gathering requirements and roadmap planning.
- Led initiatives on data decoupling from the backend that refined and established the domain boundary for the data with clear API contracts built.
- Drove and developed A/B tests and feature advancements on web pages from both frontend and backend.
- Improved the page performance (speed index) by 60% by improving the SSR from the backend and reducing the JS bundle size from the frontend.
- Set high bars in the team with definition of done documented in detail, to ensure services maturity.
- Ensured site reliability and improved the system maintainability by setting up and improving the monitoring of applications, such that issues are captured before customers do.

### Gameplay Engineer Intern @ Kaydabi
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Los Angeles
- Implemented new game features (map, boosters, character evolution, social media sharing, etc) in C#, with sprite and animation editing, and external APIs integration.
- Built new levels of the game in Unity.
- Fixed bugs or errors that arise during tests.
- Ported the game to both Android and iOS devices.
- Assisted with the launch of the game on the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store

### Grader of CSCI-544 Applied Natural Language Processing @ University of Southern California
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | University of Southern California

### NLP Research Assistant @ University of Southern California
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | 12015 Waterfront Drive Playa Vista, CA 90094-2536
As a researcher, I built a chatbot with Python that experts in understanding and answering reasoning questions in a human sense manner, based on a published article that was discussing abduction techniques.


## Education
### Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science
University of Southern California


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yinlinzhou
- Portfolio: http://kelonzhou.wix.com/yinlinssight

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Last updated: 2026-03-31