Alex Lin Email & Phone Number

Oakland, California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

Holds office hours 5 days/weekSupports local instructor in preparing extra resources and supplemental materialProvides feedback on student assignments & projectsMentors students in navigating both technical, strategic, and emotional challenges during intensive course

capstone project:soundcloud-recommender a recommender engine built in python and productionized in AWS. consists of: - soundcloud.com API wrapper (requests) - relational db manager (psycopg2, sqlalchemy ORM) - crawling and data validation/extraction server - postgres db organizing social metadata, interaction, and crawling "to-do" tables - collaborative filter ML model and recommender (sklearn, scipy/numpy) - front-end app (flask)https://github.com/ajlin/soundcloud-recommenderCompleted 12 week full-time Data Science program whose curriculum included Stats & Probabilities, Linear Algebra, Machine Learning in Python & Spark, Neural Networks, Time-Spatial Series, and Natural Language ProcessingBuilt Reddit webscraping server and NLP model over 1gb+ of text dataAchieved better-than-baseline results in Chicago West Nile Virus Mosquito-Abatement project on Kaggle

Designed and implemented three district-wide image deployments for 2000+ mobile devices across three campuses (iOS, OSX)Wrote systems automation and user account management (Bash, Python, Applescript) and developed protocol for scaling and empowering our summer deployments with limited staff & timeDeveloped scripts and pkgs for over-the-air software and configuration deployment for post-deployment updates, installations, vendor migrations, and internet security and filtering of take-home devicesHandled cloud & remote management, Apple hardware repairs, and daily, direct technical and instructional support for students, staff, and teachers in 1:1 middle school laptop program (550 students, ~600 devices)Assisted a full stack network infrastructure replacement project (Cisco-Meraki) over three campuses

San Francisco Bay Area

Provided operations support for an iOS tablet-based automated dispatch & bus-tracking platform which served more than a million rides dispatched per yearProvided 24-hour technical support for customers with overnight safety servicesWrote MySQL and Splunk queries for internal & customer-facing analysis

San Francisco Bay Area

Processed global GTFS transit data through clean & build stages to database and iOS transit-mapping appExpanded automated data sourcing and cleaning protocol to dozens of new agencies and regions across the US and internationally as transit agencies picked up google's open data protocol

Data Science Immersive (12 Weeks)

Classics And Classical Languages, Literatures, And Linguistics