About

Francis Lin is a skilled Machine Learning Engineer with a passion for the intersection between data science, medical devices, and human health. He is committed to leveraging his analytical background and problem-solving skills to positively impact people's lives. Currently, Francis works at Amgen where he is responsible for developing and implementing machine learning algorithms to optimize drug discovery and development processes. Prior to his current role, Francis worked as a Data Engineer and Associate IS at Amgen. In these positions, he gained hands-on experience building, automating, deploying, and optimizing applications for data scientists analyzing clinical trial studies. Francis' achievements in these roles include building and maintaining the team's first 8 CI/CD pipelines, integrating an R package management tool into the data science platform resulting in reproducible builds and a 40% reduction in build time, and prototyping new technologies such as RStudio Job Launcher and Kubernetes. Francis is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, where he earned a Bachelor's Degree in Bioengineering. He has a strong technical background in ML, Data Science, Data Engineering, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and DevOps. With almost 5 years of relevant experience, Francis is a highly skilled and motivated professional who is always looking for opportunities to collaborate on projects that positively impact people's lives. In his free time, Francis enjoys jogging, coding, reading, photography, cooking, and most of all, listening to other people.