Hello, I’m Lin.

Android engineer and digital nomad, moving around Thailand. I build mobile products and keep them lean.

Android started for me in 2014, at a Samsung bootcamp in university, where I built a tour-guide app for my hometown, Myeik. A year later came an internship at Nexlabs in Yangon, where a small internal HR tool grew into Better HR and taught me to care about the product, not just the code.

When Better HR spun off, I was its only Android engineer. I built the first two apps alone, then hired and grew the team to seven — where steady code review and pair programming beat any solo heroics.

From 2020 it was Lomotif, a video app with half a million monthly users. With a team of three, we rebuilt its foundations while it was still running and wrote the conventions and standards the team worked by.

Since late 2022 it’s been 99 Group and the 99.co property marketplace. I like work I can measure: build times and app size both cut in half, crash-free rate near 99.7%, tech debt trending down instead of up. Keeping the stack current is part of it too, modernising the codebase to unlock tools like Compose and Hilt. Lately most of the work is AI-assisted engineering — code-review automation and agent workflows — making the team faster without cutting corners.

Mostly, I remove things — unused screens, slow builds, megabytes, spare words. What’s simple tends to last.

Outside work, it’s good coffee, the odd talk, and short notes when something’s worth keeping.