Hi, I'm Eric Lin, a dedicated software engineer passionate about building scalable, reliable, and efficient software solutions. I am currently pursuing a Bachelor of Mathematics in Data Science at the University of Waterloo, diving deep into algorithms, AI, machine learning, distributed computing, and database management. With solid hands-on experience in various technologies including React, Laravel, Django, and PostgreSQL, I have contributed to real-world projects focusing on API development, authentication systems, data parsing, and performance optimization. I enjoy tackling challenging problems and continually enhancing my skills in both front-end and back-end development.

Eric Lin

Hi, I'm Eric Lin, a dedicated software engineer passionate about building scalable, reliable, and efficient software solutions. I am currently pursuing a Bachelor of Mathematics in Data Science at the University of Waterloo, diving deep into algorithms, AI, machine learning, distributed computing, and database management. With solid hands-on experience in various technologies including React, Laravel, Django, and PostgreSQL, I have contributed to real-world projects focusing on API development, authentication systems, data parsing, and performance optimization. I enjoy tackling challenging problems and continually enhancing my skills in both front-end and back-end development.

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Hi, I’m Eric Lin, a dedicated software engineer passionate about building scalable, reliable, and efficient software solutions. I am currently pursuing a Bachelor of Mathematics in Data Science at the University of Waterloo, diving deep into algorithms, AI, machine learning, distributed computing, and database management.

With solid hands-on experience in various technologies including React, Laravel, Django, and PostgreSQL, I have contributed to real-world projects focusing on API development, authentication systems, data parsing, and performance optimization. I enjoy tackling challenging problems and continually enhancing my skills in both front-end and back-end development.

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Language

English
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Work Experience

Software Engineer at Scrawlr
December 31, 2024 - August 22, 2025
Contributed to the development and maintenance of a high-performance API for a social networking platform using PHP, Laravel, PostgreSQL, and Docker Compose with a focus on scalability and reliability. Created notification workers to process events from Redis queues managing tasks such as friend requests and post upvotes with Sentry error tracking. Designed and implemented a custom ANTLR grammar to parse and validate Rich Text, enabling rich text features support. Wrote SQL migration scripts to modify database tables to enable administrator user management.
Software Engineer at Tool Zero
August 31, 2024 - August 22, 2025
Enhanced core product functionality by implementing new features using React, Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind. Created and populated new SQL databases using Prisma ORM and PostgreSQL. Conducted A/B testing and fine-tuned a large language model, achieving a 30% reduction in token usage and improving document parsing accuracy. Spearheaded end-to-end JWT authentication system including server-side OAuth code, email integration for user sign-up flow, and password reset.
Software Engineer at Scrawlr
April 30, 2023 - August 22, 2025
Worked on various internal tools and web applications in a monorepo using Vue.js, Vite, JavaScript, and Tailwind. Developed new web pages leveraging cron web workers to efficiently fetch and display API data at intervals enhancing real-time information delivery and user engagement. Optimized a CLI tool for generating dependency license reports through parallelization. Integrated new unit/mutation tests and e2e visual tests into CI/CD workflow using CircleCI and YML.
Software Engineer at GrantMatch
August 31, 2022 - August 22, 2025
Modernized and refactored legacy Laravel codebase to Django increasing code maintainability and scalability. Built over 20 new web pages using custom Vue.js components and Vuetify’s grid system. Developed new Django queries leading to a 20% increase in data loading speed for the Data team.

Education

Bachelor of Mathematics (Data Science) at University of Waterloo
September 1, 2020 - April 30, 2025

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Software & Internet, Professional Services, Education