Hsuan Lin(Nick), Huang

Senior Software Engineer


Summary

A pragmatic, product-minded Senior Software Engineer with 9+ years of experience across backend development, technical leadership, and quality automation. Hands-on builder in agentic programming, bringing AI tooling into daily engineering workflows.

Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer in Test

GoFreight

Jan. 2024 - Feb. 2026

  • Architected AI evaluation platform for production LLM applications using promptfoo and custom Python pipelines, establishing automated quality metrics across product teams and reducing manual validation overhead by 70%
  • Migrated E2E testing from legacy framework to TypeScript and Playwright with AI-assisted script conversion, reducing manual effort by 75% and implementation time by 80%
  • Developed API testing infrastructure from OpenAPI specifications with type-safe code generation and automated assertions, improving test development efficiency and increasing API test coverage by 30%
  • Designed containerized mock service architecture using Docker Compose with dynamic state management, eliminating external dependencies for 500+ integration tests and reducing CI pipeline time by 80%

Backend Tech Lead

AsiaYo

Sep. 2022 - Aug. 2023

  • Led cross-functional team of 6 members (2 Backend, 1 Frontend, 1 QA, 2 PMs) shipping complete product line features for internal systems and B2B integration, delivering on committed scope across multiple product cycles
  • Drove technical planning, system design, and data migration for three new business initiatives, delivering scalable backend architectures with zero-downtime rollouts
  • Introduced ClickUp with custom automation and a strategic planning framework, reducing meeting overhead by 50%, project delays by 30%, and improving sprint predictability to over 95%
  • Adopted dbdiagram and dbdoc as a doc-to-code workflow for database schema design, turning diagrams into shared communication artifacts across backend, frontend, and product teams

Backend Engineer

AsiaYo

Aug. 2017 - Sep. 2022

  • Executed strategic database refactoring consolidating 21 tables into 4 with zero downtime through dual-write migration, reducing development resources by 60% and enhancing query performance
  • Optimized image processing infrastructure through AWS Lambda serverless architecture with S3 event triggers, reducing operational costs by 50%
  • Implemented production-grade monitoring stack integrating Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK with custom alerting, enabling proactive issue detection and reducing error resolution time by 40%
  • Transformed legacy monolithic crawler into cloud-native microservices using Docker and Kubernetes, reducing execution time by 60%

Side Projects

  • cc-mobile — Mobile client for Claude Code built on the Claude Agent SDK with Tailscale-based remote connection to desktop workstation, delivering fuller support for slash commands and agent workflows than the official app
  • cc-plugins — Installable Claude Code plugin marketplace spanning development workflows, tooling integrations, visualization, and project management
  • SumVox — Agent-friendly voice notifier that summarizes content and delivers TTS alerts for long-running AI agent tasks

Core Technical Skills

Programming Languages Golang, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, PHP
Cloud & Infrastructure AWS (Lambda, S3, EC2, RDS), GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD
Databases MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDB
Testing & Automation Playwright, Selenium, Pytest, promptfoo
DevOps & Monitoring Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ELK Stack, Prometheus, Grafana
AI Engineering Agentic Programming, LLM Evaluation, MCP
Leadership & Process Technical Leadership, Cross-functional Collaboration, Agile Methodologies

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Sep. 2013 - Jul. 2017