My Life in Five Minutes
The philosophy I live by:
You are too focused on the future without realizing that today is exactly what you prayed for years ago.
I'm Lin Hugo — a software builder currently pursuing a Master of Science in Computer Science at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. My interests sit at the intersection of web development and large-scale software systems, where I care deeply about quality, reliability, and efficiency.
I grew up studying Atmospheric Sciences at National Central University in Taiwan, where I picked up a minor in Programming Design along the way. The detour from weather systems to software turned out to be less of a detour and more of a natural path — both fields are fundamentally about modeling complex systems and making sense of them. I graduated in June 2024.
During those four years I kept one foot in the classroom and one foot in industry. I served as a teaching assistant for five courses — from Freshman English to Programming Python and Weather & AI — supporting over 250 students. Outside coursework, I managed a year-long project to build an orientation website for incoming freshmen; our team shipped a Blog feature that drew 2,000+ visitors per page.
#Work
My industry journey started in the summer of 2023 at PEGATRON, where I joined as an AI Engineer intern on their Smart Manufacturing team. I built a Large Language Model proof-of-concept that I presented directly to the CTO, and the team earned a Silver award for the project. That same summer I became an AWS Campus Ambassador, running technical workshops on cloud services for 700+ developers across campus with a 96% satisfaction rate.
In early 2024 I interned at eCloudvalley as a Cloud Engineer, leading a five-person agile team to ship a serverless AWS Bedrock solution. We built a multi-modal ticket classifier that hit 95% accuracy and drove an 80% efficiency gain through automation — and the project took top honors across all internship cohorts that cycle.
Most recently, I spent early 2025 at Futurenest as an R&D Engineer, shipping Django REST APIs with 100% test coverage, containerising them through AWS ECR, and integrating a Next.js chat interface with a custom backend.
#Beyond code
I shoot film and digital photography whenever I can — mostly street and travel. There's something about the discipline of a single frame that sharpens the way you see the world, and I carry that same sensibility into writing and engineering.
If any of this resonates, feel free to reach out.