Leon Lin
Co-Founder CEO at 1stCollab
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolLeon Lin is a seasoned software entrepreneur and product leader, currently Co-Founder and CEO of 1stCollab, where he leverages ML to predict creator performance and connect brands with top influencers. He spent nine years at Pinterest, where he led Discovery Product across Home, Search, and Related surfaces, driving initiatives to boost engagement, grow native content and video, and reshape distribution around creator outcomes. In the Pinterest feed domain, he built the backend for Topic Feeds—the largest single source of recommendations on the Home feed—and shipped the ML pipeline to classify Pins into feeds. He also productionized the first version of user annotations, the core personalization signal used for recommendations, and led efforts to localize, scale, and optimize feeds worldwide. A Stanford CS graduate with specialization in ML and theoretical CS, he combines hands-on engineering, product leadership, and a founder's vision to tackle creator-driven marketplaces from the San Francisco Bay Area.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at The Lawrenceville SchoolMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Stanford University
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Github contributions (5)
leonlinc/mpts
Jan 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:1 review, 4 commits, 15 PRs in 2 years 9 months
leonlinc/config
Jun 2016 - Jul 2019
Contributions:373 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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