steven lin
i build reliable systems — at hyperscale, and in my garage.
now
infra & observability engineer by trade. builder by default. i like systems that are understandable, observable, and serviceable. right now: solo-building an ai agent product, and fabricating a campervan on the weekends.
signals
- 200k+ switches observed; millions of servers in telemetry scope.
- ~20s fault detection; 99.9%+ parsing accuracy in production pipelines.
- early llm rca agents; now building an agent product end to end.
work
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memetopia. agent runtime, tool orchestration, memory, frontend, and the production backend under it. shipped on ios + android; still close to the details.
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owned telemetry across 200k+ switches and millions of servers. built topsight, ~20s anomaly detection, and llm rca agents before chatgpt. most of the work was making messy reality legible.
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founding engineer on a network troubleshooting framework; human-in-the-loop automation for safe production changes.
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multi-terabit long-haul optical transmission at infinera; phd in electrical & computer engineering, university of arizona.
building
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started from a 3d scan of the bare vehicle and designed the layout from there. upgraded the suspension for the build weight, plumbed fresh + grey water, cut and sealed every window and vent myself, built all the cabinetry and finish, and wired home assistant through the whole thing. every layer, by hand; every layer still maintainable.
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proxmox across a few machines with gpu passthrough into dedicated vms, a unifi dream machine out front, an nginx reverse proxy for self-hosted services, victron for backup power, and openclaw as one ops surface.
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lights, climate, power, and sensors. the same platform i embedded in the van also runs the apartment.
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brackets, mounts, enclosures — i design and print whatever the van or the lab needs that you can't buy.