Adam Lin · vehicle dynamics and software

I’m a vehicle dynamics and software engineer in Irvine, California, which is home. I spend most of my time measuring cars, fitting models to what they actually did, and building the software that carries a measurement from the logger to a conclusion.

My background spans vehicle dynamics, software engineering, and early-stage products, including time as a Forward-Deployed Engineer at Sahur Tech, co-founding Resound, a peer-to-peer instrument lending marketplace (demo site ↗, source ↗), and building analytics at Finfare. I studied Computer Science at UC Berkeley with a focus on AI and worked on the vehicle dynamics subteam of Berkeley Formula Racing. Before any of that I played first violin in the American Youth Symphony, an audition-only orchestra that paid its players, with concerts at Walt Disney Concert Hall and Segerstrom, among others.

Outside of engineering, I drive, I ski, and I still play the violin. I raced ROK Sonoma at Sonoma Raceway Karting Center, the circuit behind this page, instruct HPDE as an MSF Level 1 instructor, and am working through a NASA competition license. I raced in the masters program at Palisades Tahoe and took a NASTAR bronze, and I play intramural soccer.

I’m drawn to problems where taste, subjective preference, and technical competence have to agree: someone knows what they like, and the instruments get to say whether they’re right. That usually means measuring before modeling, keeping the caveats attached to every number, and writing it down when the data disagrees with me.