About

Nathan Lin is a Senior Software Engineer with over 6 years of experience working across the stack in hyper-growth startups. He is currently working at Uber as a Software Engineer in Backend and Distributed Systems. Nathan has worked on Uber's Dynamic Configuration Infrastructure team, providing nanosecond reads on runtime configuration for Uber's 5000+ microservices and products such as UberX, UberEats, Rideshare, Uber Freight, etc. He has also designed and built leader election based Gitolite failover agent to control DB write traffic and aid in making Uber's git databases consistent. Nathan has built the data access layer to integrate Uber's new unified configuration system's to a Git DB and implemented a distributed locking solution to prevent write conflicts during multiple global configuration rollbacks. Nathan has previously worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Upbound, where he developed mobile features, web features, and microservice backend APIs for Samsara's ELD Compliance product. He has led multi-month project teams of 3 to 6 engineers, coordinating across multiple teams, quickly realigning work based on constantly changing priorities and timelines, communicating consistently with relevant parties, building robust and extendable code, and ensuring deadlines were met with a quality product. Nathan has also worked as a Mechanical Engineer at Rodo Medical, where he designed dental implant connectors and locking mechanisms to integrate with industry-standard implants. Nathan holds a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He is proficient in Software Engineering, Backend, React Native, Typescript, Microservices, Mobile, Web, Frontend, Research Scientist, and Redux. Nathan has relevant experience of 7.04 years in the industry.