Kevin Lin

Senior Software Engineer (Developer III)

Mar 2024 - Present · Vancouver, Canada

• As tech lead of the Mobile Activation team, mentored multiple back-end engineers to transition into successful full-stack roles.

• Won Best Buy’s hackathon by engineering one of the company’s first AI-enhanced customer experiences, streamlining mobile phone purchases to improve in-store conversion and customer satisfaction.

• Led the development of Best Buy Canada’s design system, delivering a scalable component library and establishing standards between design and development.

• Spearheaded the Mobile Activation team’s shift to AI-driven development, establishing new tooling standards and practices adopted across the team.

• Shipped a browser extension in a single day with AI-assisted development to automate JIRA link migrations during the move to JIRA Cloud, saving the organization hundreds of hours.

• Built an Android application for warehouse operations that directly contributed to the recovery and preservation of $18M in vendor funding.

Software Engineer (Developer II)

Aug 2021 - Mar 2024 · Vancouver, Canada

• Led the development of the Enterprise Returns Application, delivering the chain-wide returns platform in four months with Nx, TypeScript, Next.js, NextAuth.js, and React to keep the rollout of Best Buy’s new transaction system on track.

• Saved the Mobile Activation team more than 3 hours weekly by automating the build, release, and release approval processes.

• Reached the finals of Best Buy’s hackathon with an LLM-powered check that flagged when an incorrect mobile device was scanned during the sales process.

Software Engineer

Jul 2019 - Aug 2021 · Vancouver, Canada

• Architected the new client UI with React, Microsoft Fluent UI, TypeScript, Redux, and Redux Saga.

• Modernized and automated the build and release-notes process with Jenkins pipelines, saving hours on every release.

• Simplified the client application login flow by integrating Microsoft Azure Active Directory.

• Attracted new customers by replacing the legacy mapping component with Esri.

• Migrated the client application from jQuery to React, introducing modular components that sharply increased UI development speed.

Software Support Engineer

Jul 2018 - Jul 2019 · Vancouver, Canada

• Strengthened application security with Nginx, enabling the application to pass the HCL (IBM) AppScan.

• Customized JIRA workflows with the ScriptRunner plugin.

• Built a dynamic PDF report generator with Apache PDFBox.

• Improved release quality by replacing the centralized workflow with Gitflow.

Contracted Software Developer

Mar 2021 - Jun 2021 · Vancouver, Canada

• Built an Electron, React, and Express application that parsed and organized data from thousands of Excel spreadsheets.

• Modernized legacy VBA-enhanced Excel spreadsheets, reducing processing times by 3x.

Contracted VBA Developer

Aug 2017 - Sep 2017 · Toronto, Canada

• Built a VBA-enhanced customer relationship management spreadsheet in Excel.

• Created a VBA-enhanced Excel spreadsheet that generated graphical reports.

Special Assistant

Oct 2016 - Jun 2017 · Taipei, Taiwan

• Automated price-update emails with VBA, cutting the time spent by 80%.

• Created VBA macro-enhanced Excel spreadsheets that transformed sales data into graphical reports.

• Trained sales staff on the petrochemical supply chain.

• Designed trade show posters and marketing content.

• Coordinated quarterly cross-office meetings.