Timmy Lin

Software Engineer

B.S. Computer Science | Cal Poly Pomona

Featured Projects

Autonomous UAV Navigation in GPS-Denied Environments

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Aug 2024 - Present

  • Developed VTOL-based UAV navigation simulations in Gazebo; integrated ORB-SLAM3 and RTAB-Map for real-time 3D mapping
  • Built real-time UAV human detection system using YOLOv11 for rescue operations
  • Implemented ROS 2 Foxy for communication between SLAM, mapping, and perception modules
  • Accelerated deep learning and SLAM tasks using CUDA-enabled Jetson Nano/Xavier hardware
  • Published research to ICUAS 2025 on real-time multi-UAV coordination for indoor search and rescue
ROS 2 CUDA Python C++ SLAM Computer Vision
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ATS-Optimized Resume Analysis Tool

Personal Project

  • Built a resume scanner with NLP-based keyword matching against job descriptions
  • Developed frontend in React + Tailwind and backend in FastAPI with real-time analysis
  • Used spaCy, KeyBERT, and Sentence Transformers for named entity recognition and resume-job similarity scoring
React.js FastAPI NLP Python Tailwind CSS

Automated PR Review Bot

Personal Project

  • Created a GitHub bot using OpenAI API to automatically review PRs for quality and style
  • Integrated GitHub Actions to automate real-time PR feedback on every push
  • Implemented static analysis for deprecated APIs, vulnerabilities, and non-compliant code
Python GitHub Actions OpenAI API FastAPI

Technical Skills

Languages

Python C++ Java SQL C# Bash

Frameworks & Libraries

FastAPI TensorFlow PyTorch OpenCV YOLO ORB-SLAM3 RTAB-Map ROS 2 Foxy

Technologies

Docker Git GitHub Actions REST APIs OpenAI API FastAPI Cursor LLM Integration

Operating Systems

Linux (Ubuntu) Windows MacOS
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Certifications

NASA L'SPACE Mission Concept Academy

NASA Proposal Writing & Evaluation Experience

NASA Aerospace Scholars Achievement

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS Certified Developer - Associate

Contact

Currently seeking opportunities in Robotics, AI, and Software Engineering.