David Lin

I build teams, improve software engineering practices, knowledge sharing, and enhance overall team performance.

Senior Engineering Manager 

2018 - 2023

Nordstrom 

• Grew the organization to reach 3 engineering managers, 37 engineers, a data analyst and delivered on time for new business models, improved processes, cost efficiencies, and customer experience.
• Defined product roadmaps by aligning with leadership priorities, balancing among short-term and long-term needs to enable agility and innovation that led to delivery of next generation systems. 
• Monitored key performance indicators for data-driven insights and collaborated with product management, partner teams, and stakeholders that resulted in process and quality improvements.
• Led hiring efforts across departments by establishing a more consistent, scalable, and efficient approach that enabled multiple teams to fill vacancies faster. 
• Built learning culture by spearheading knowledge-sharing talk series, allowing subject matter experts to share best practices. This practice was adapted by 2 managers for their own teams. 
• Applied proven leadership principles, mentoring, and received 11.9 points on average higher than comparison organization in Voice of Employee Survey. 

Software Development Manager 

2017 - 2018

Sinclair Broadcast Group 

• Led a team of software developers to deliver flexible, reliable, and secure Java services that supported customer requirements for content delivery and monetization.
• Enabled lean management practices by making product development workflow visible to better detect and mitigate obstacles, allowing team and leadership to gain clarity on high priority tasks and improve communication.
• Transformed organizational knowledge sharing practice department-wide by recording 6 brown bag talks and by utilizing company’s product to deliver the training content, improving software knowledge across teams.

Software Development Manager 

2016 - 2017

CommerceHub 

• Directly led a team of full-stack software developers working with Groovy, ReactJS, Node.js, AWS, Chef, MongoDB and Linux.
• Drove Kanban and DevOps best practices, monitored critical projects to ensure accurate schedules and on-time results.
• Built a team from scratch through successful hiring with limited budget in a highly competitive job market. 
• Established a culture of continual learning and knowledge sharing by recording over 10 brown bag/lighting talks in 9 months.
• Reduced vulnerability with high-profile security patches in a fast-paced environment within 14 hours and organized security updates with third-party open-source libraries.

Master of Business Administration, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California

Bachelor of Science, Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine