Victor Lin
Sr. Engineering Manager @ Houzz · Millbrae, CA

Hi, I'm
Victor Lin

I lead Cloud and Data Infrastructure at Houzz — driving reliability, security, and cost efficiency across AWS, EKS, and our Data platforms. 9 years at Houzz, progressing from Senior Engineer to Senior Engineering Manager.

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9
Years at Houzz
35%
AWS Cost Reduction
99.9%
Availability Sustained
9
Engineers Led

About Me

Building Cloud Infrastructure
at Scale

My mission is to build and evolve a secure, scalable, and cost-effective Cloud and Data infrastructure that supports Houzz products and analytics at scale. I lead 2 teams of 9 Core and Data Infrastructure Engineers — including 2 tech leads — across East Coast, West Coast, and APAC.

Key achievements include a company-wide migration from Kops to AWS EKS (standardized with Terraform, ArgoCD, Karpenter, and Istio), delivering a 35% annual AWS cost reduction while sustaining >99.9% availability. I also led the modernization of MySQL clusters from self-hosted 5.7 to Aurora RDS 8.4 with zero data loss, and drove AI-assisted engineering workflows adoption across the org.

My leadership approach: assign outcomes, not tasks. I champion scalable, low-maintenance systems, facilitate cross-team transparency, and empower tech leads to own designs end-to-end.

Career at Houzz: Sr. Software Engineer (2017) → Staff Engineer / Tech Lead (2019) → Engineering Manager (2020) → Sr. Engineering Manager (2024)

AWS EKS Karpenter Terraform ArgoCD Istio Fastly CDN
Prometheus Thanos OpenTelemetry Distributed Tracing GuardDuty
Flink MSK / Kafka Airflow Trino EMR Snowflake
Aurora RDS MySQL 8.4 Redis
Python Go Java JavaScript

Portfolio

Past Projects

Jesus Says Now

Jesus Says Now

An iOS app delivering daily inspirational quotes and Bible verses to guide and uplift your day.

App Store Privacy
Pinitt

Pinitt

A full-stack Pinterest-inspired app with image pinning, boards, and social features.

Live GitHub
Coin Rush

Coin Rush

A JavaScript browser game built with vanilla JS, featuring real-time coin collection mechanics.

Live GitHub
Now You Don't See Me

Now You (Don't) See Me

A Chrome extension for hiding sensitive content on screen during presentations.

Chrome Store GitHub
LinkedIn Endorser

LinkedIn Endorser

A Chrome extension that automates LinkedIn skill endorsements to help your network.

Chrome Store GitHub

Contact

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Support

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If you enjoy my work or find my projects useful, consider buying me a coffee via Venmo. Every bit of support is greatly appreciated!

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