
Justin Lin
Software Engineering @ UWaterloo
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Hi! I'm Justin. I'm in 3A SE. This summer, I'm joining Tesla in the Bay Area.
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I'm a Data/Backend Engineer by trade. At Tesla, I'll be working on
data pipelines and AI for vehicle manufacturing.
I previously interned at
Zynga Inc. as both a Data
Engineer and Backend Engineer. I worked on data pipelines that
could scale to millions of daily events using tech like Kafka and
Spark. I also built infrastructure that Zynga uses to observe its
large machine learning models in production. Finally, I wrote
Go/gRPC code for low-latency services in
Zynga Poker.
In 2024, I co-founded
Waterloo Reality Labs.
It's probably the coolest thing I've ever done. As Software Lead,
I directed the development of
on-device AI models
for hand pose recognition. As a wider team, we're trying to build
a humanoid robot and
VR headsets from scratch. Our team consists of 30-40 student engineers, and we even hire
full-time interns.
In 2023, I received the top prizes at
Hack the North
and
HackWestern.
I was also previously a Workshop Lead at Hack the North.
In 2022, I began my degree at UWaterloo. I also started my
YouTube channel, which a lot of new SE students seem to recognize me from (LOL).
I'm currently the president of the
Software Engineering Society.
I'm a friend of
Socratica, and you can
find me spending my weekends there.
Contact me if you're interested in what I do! I'm especially down
to chat if you're interested in what we do at Reality Labs. Comms
are also always open to SEs who have program concerns or who are
stressed & lost (I've been there too).