Pseric Lin



About

念舊的網路人,追著科技跑,血液裡卻流著對於老時代的熱情。目前是台灣最大的免費資源網站「免費資源網路社群」創辦人暨總編輯,每月流量突破百萬人次,從學生時期便成立該網站,一寫就是八年,堅持每日更新,從挖掘資料的過程中慢慢尋找出自己經營網站的方法。前後出版過數本著作,主題遍及 WordPress、免費資源、數位工作方法、雲端生活等等,寫作是他目前最快樂、也最喜歡的事。


Skills

C++, Java
Javascript
Python, PHP
HTML5, CSS3, SVG
Qt, OpenGL/SDL, V8

jQuery, backbone, node
Django, App engine
LESS, Bootstrap, d3.js
MySQL, MongoDB
grunt, jasmine
Flash, Actionscript 3
Git, Photoshop, Illustrator

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science
New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Science
SEP 2013 - MAY 2015

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering
New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Science

SEP 2013 - MAY 2015

Experience

Emotion - New York University
Research Assistant, Full Stack Engineer

Started out as a tool to help collect data for a research project - Lingering emotion in the experience of beauty, is now a comprehensive app that simulates every step of the experiment and automates the entire data collection process.

  • Designed and developed a mobile-friendly responsive web app from the ground-up that tracks touch events to calibrate and measure the distance between two fingers and detects gestures for UI interactions.
  • Ported the web app to the macintosh platform, using node-webkit and developed a native node.js module that detects and generates DOM-friendly touch events from a mac trackpad.
  • Configured and developed a RESTful server that extracts audio data from video recordings containing speech while trimming background silence and normalizing gain.
  • Devised and implemented a method to safely play user-selected music within the web app using an intermediary server that regulates and streams audio data from a popular music streaming service.
  • Implemented interactive audio and visual feedback using the HTML5 web audio api and SVG.
JUNE 2013
AUG 2015


Classroom.tv
Front-end Engineer

  • Crafted the logo and a majority of the initial web app interface using photoshop and illustrator.
  • Created mockups, planned and facilitated usability testing and converted the designs into gracefully-degradable standards based code (HTML, CSS).
  • Organised and developed semantically meanigful UI components using Backbone.js, such as a customized HTML5 video player with time-synchronized display of lecture slides and nested discussion threads.
  • Developed access control based front-end components in PHP using the Yii framework.

AUG 2011
APR 2012

Honors

SEARCC International School's Software Competition
Algorithmic Programming Competition

Organized by the Computer Society of India, was part of a team of three to represent our region at the national level finals. Finished second by solving the maximum number of problems.
Fall 2007


Codechef Gamer's Challenge
Actionscript/HTML5 Game Development Competition

Developed a prototypical game using Actionscript on the Flash platform, in less than 48 hours. Received an honorable mention award for the Best Looking Game.


Summer 2009