Victor Lin

About Victor Lin

I am a software engineer focused on front end with a multidisciplinary background. I have dabbled in a variety of fields including but not limited to mechanical design, IOT, mechatronics, robotics, and embedded. I\'m passionate about growing as an engineer and have developed a habit to be a lifelong learner. I currently build scalable and performant components and user interfaces for long running applications.

Experience

1. Lead Software Engineer

   Morningstar

   Jan 2022 — Present

   Founding engineer of Mo, a chatbot built on top of ChatGPT to support both internal and external users through various workflows using AI such as investment screening, security entity detection and article retrieval• Architected the Intelligence Engine Management Console, a tooling UI to create prompts, and evaluation sets to run against prompt sets allowing AI application managers of Mo to iterate toward better generated answer quality• Streamlined the component delivery system by leveraging module federation, CDN, S3, and CloudFront, eliminating the process of pulling from an npm repo, building, and redeploying, saving hours of development time across teams• Developed an internal library in Vue.js to generate event based usage data allowing for product managers and designers to gain insights from analytics to build a better product• Improved memory usage in 190+ components seeing up to 70% less consumption in long running browser sessions• Reengineered the CI/CD pipeline reducing the time from pushing to deployment from 3 hours to 30 minutes allowing for product managers and designers to see new features and updates multiple times a day• Mentored senior engineers, mid-level engineers and interns in both team-specific and company-specific code architecture, framework implementation and patterns, allowing faster ramp-up and contribution time for mentees

Education

• Illinois Institute of Technology

  B.S., Mechanical Engineering

  2012 — 2014

Skills

• Arduino
• Research
• Raspberry Pi
• Autocad
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
• Microsoft Office
• Node.js
• Express.js
• Mongodb
• Angularjs
• Heroku
• Javascript
• Teaching
• C++
• Git
• Bower
• Teamwork
• Sql
• Jquery
• Matlab
• Project Management
• Solidworks
• Html
• Css
• Leadership
• Data Analysis
• Statistics
• React.js
• Nosql
• Bootstrap
• Npm
• Strategic Negotiations