Jiayu Lin

Jiayu Lin

Software engineer specializing in distributed systems, high-performance computing, and ML pipelines. 3+ years building scalable backends, GPU-accelerated systems, and full-stack data platforms. Currently an AI Application Engineer at Bayer AG and Computer Vision Researcher at WashU.

Experience

AI Application Engineer Bayer AG
Jan 2026 – Present St. Louis, MO
  • Managed deployment pipelines for open-source ML models in enterprise AWS environments
  • Prototyped generative AI pipelines using AWS SageMaker to parse 7,000+ engineering standards
  • Conducted feasibility studies for Graph RAG and custom computer vision pipelines for multimodal data
Computer Vision Researcher Multimodal Vision Research Lab, WashU
Jul 2024 – Present St. Louis, MO
  • Built multimodal deep learning system for trajectory prediction combining LSTM encoder with U-Net backbone
  • Engineered distributed data pipeline handling 100GB+ datasets with fault recovery and LSF cluster integration
  • Designed multi-format export system (GeoParquet, CSV, GeoJSON) with 60% compression optimization
Full-Stack Software Developer Digital Transformation Program
May 2025 – Aug 2025 St. Louis, MO
  • Built geospatial visualization platform with Python backend and React frontend serving millions of records
  • Implemented RESTful APIs for real-time querying over Parquet storage with interactive dashboards
  • Coordinated integration across backend, frontend, and research stakeholders in an interdisciplinary team
C++ CUDA Developer / Medical Optics Researcher Z-Lab, WashU
Aug 2023 – May 2024 St. Louis, MO
  • Built GPU-accelerated OCT image processing pipelines using CUDA with Thrust and cuFFT
  • Developed Qt C++ application for artifact removal from medical images
  • Designed low-latency hardware-software communication interfaces with sub-millisecond response times

Education

M.S. in Computer Science
Washington University in St. Louis
2022–2024
B.A.S. in Philosophy
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2018–2021

Skills

Distributed Systems High-Performance Computing (CUDA/GPU) Machine Learning & Computer Vision Backend Development (Python, C++) Full-Stack Development (React, FastAPI) Cloud Infrastructure (AWS) MLOps & ML Deployment Data Processing

Hobbies

Drawing Cooking Playing video games