Jiabin Lu

From Eng to Value Creator

San Francisco2.2k followers

Amplitude

ex-Dyle

ex-Chinese Academy of Sciences

Most engineers are brilliant at building systems. But navigating careers?
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That’s a different kind of complexity — and nobody hands you a I’ve spent 5+ years at Amplitude, going from distributed systems engineer → tech lead manager → senior engineering manager → now leading GTM at the intersection of GTM and Engineering. Along the way, I’ve helped engineers navigate promotions, 1:1 structures, and the IC-to-EM I’ve been on both sides of the IC-to-EM-to-IC transition. I know what it feels like to not know if management is right for you — and what it takes to thrive once you make the Today, I offer 1:1 coaching for:→ Software Engineers aiming for Senior, Staff, or Principal promotions→ Engineers considering the move into engineering management→ New and experienced EMs building leadership clarity and confidence→ SWEs & EMs preparing for job searches, interviews, and offer negotiationsMy approach is direct, practical, and grounded in real experience — not generic advice. DM me “coaching” or book a free 30-min intro call via my Services section below.

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UPHONEST CAPITALJOB
1. Scout
  5Y 9M
AMPLITUDEJOB
1. Head of GTM Eng
  6M
2. Senior software Eng Mgr
  1Y
3. Software Eng Mgr
  2Y
4. Staff Software Eng and Tea…
  6M
5. Senior Software Eng
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DYLEJOB
1. Advisor
  5M
MJAA MENTORSHIP PROGRAMJOB
1. Volunteer
  1Y 3M
MYSELFJOB
1. Angel Investor
  1Y 11M
APPLEJOB
1. Software Eng
  1Y 8M
AMAZONJOB
1. Software Eng II
  1Y 1M
2. Software Eng
  1Y 11M
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITYSCHOOL
1. Master's Degree, Computer…
  2Y 11M
BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITYSCHOOL
1. Bachelor’s Degree, Electri…
  4Y 11M
CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCESJOB
1. Software Eng Internship
  3M

Job: UpHonest Capital — Scout · 2021-01 – present · 5y 7mo — I am responsible for deal sourcing, investigation and organizing tech talks. Early-stage venture fund based in silicon valley w/ 300+ portfolios. Part of our portfolios include Instacart, Checkr, Lime, Hims, Boom, Dialpad, Rescale, Notable Labs, Native, UniCareer... https://www.uphonestcapital.com/
Job: Amplitude — Head of GTM Engineer (Head of GTM Engineering) · 2026-04 – present · 4 mo — Leading GTM at the intersection of GTM and Engineering — working to turn a fragmented, human-driven system into something more unified, actionable, and scalable, of course with AI.
Job: Amplitude — Senior Software Engineer · 2021-03 – 2022-09 · 1y 6mo
Job: Dyle — Advisor · 2025-10 – 2026-03 · 5 mo — Advise on tech strategy
Job: Chinese Academy of Sciences — Software Engineer Internship · 2014-02 – 2014-05 · 3 mo — • Maintained and added new function in the web service. • Designed Web UI using HTML and JavaScript. • Updated self-help documents to help other developers fix problems easily.
Job: Amplitude — Staff Software Engineer and Team Lead · 2022-09 – 2023-03 · 6 mo
Job: Amplitude — Software Engineering Manager · 2023-03 – 2025-03 · 2y — I lead query team. Want to build a database? Curious how we process billions of events per second? Interested in low level optimization? Come join us together to build the cutting edge analysis database. We work on the large scale distributed systems powering Amplitude's core query engine, which allows us to process billions of user events per second in a typical query. Checkout our public engineer handbook to learn about our engineer culture: https://amplitude.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AMPENG/overview Our Tech Stack: Language: Java, Python, C++ All kinds of AWS resources(DynamoDB, S3, ElasticCache, Aurora, etc) We learned best practices from Druid, Scuba, Dremel, other open source proj…
Job: Myself — Angel Investor · 2021-01 – 2022-12 · 1y 11mo — OpenResty: https://openresty.com/en/ Ark7: https://ark7.com/ Suntisfy: https://www.suntisfy.com/ State Cashmere: https://statecashmere.com/
Job: Amplitude — Senior software engineer manager · 2025-03 – 2026-03 · 1y — Continuing leading Query team to scale the system and team to next level
Job: Apple — Software Engineer · 2019-07 – 2021-03 · 1y 8mo — I work in AMP(Apple Media Groups, which owns App Store, Music, TV+, Arcade, etc) Commerce backend team, responsible for account management, transactions, subscription, financials, etc. Tech stack: Java, DropWizard, SQL, NoSQL, Docker, Kubernetes
Job: MJAA Mentorship Program — Volunteer · 2024-04 – 2025-07 · 1y 3mo — I am a volunteer in MJAA mentorship program's marketing team, responsible for email marketing, content marketing, open house, etc
Job: Amazon — Software Engineer · 2016-07 – 2018-06 · 1y 11mo — • Back-end development using Java, Guice, AWS resources(S3, SNS, SQS, Aurora, DynamoDB, SWF), Amazon internal services. • System design interacting with other engineering teams and business teams • Agile development as a scrum master
Job: Amazon — Software Engineer II · 2018-06 – 2019-07 · 1y 1mo — I work at Core AI team. Tech Stack: Hadoop ecosystem, Spark, scala, python AWS EMR, AWS SageMaker, Docker
School: North Carolina State University — Master's Degree, Computer Engineering · 2014 – 2016
School: Beijing Jiaotong University — Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering · 2010 – 2014

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