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Victor Lin

I read statutes. I write

Exhibit A — The Human

One person, two operating systems.

victor@sydney — zsh
$ cat victor.json
{
  "study": "Law + Computer Science",
  "year": "Penultimate year",
  "languages": ["English", "中文"],
  "legal_experience": "4+ years",
  "trajectory": "Aspiring technology lawyer"
}
 
$ # the law tells machines what they may do;
$ # code tells them what they can.
Exhibit B — The Motive

Why this website exists.

Digital Presence & Professional Identity

As someone aspiring to work in technology law, I wanted to demonstrate my ability to bridge the gap between legal expertise and technological understanding. This website showcases not just my qualifications, but my hands-on experience with web development and digital platforms.

Knowledge Sharing & Thought Leadership

Through the blog section, I aim to share insights about the evolving landscape of technology law, AI regulations, and the intersection of legal practice with emerging technologies. This helps establish thought leadership in my field of interest.

Networking & Connection

This platform serves as a central hub where potential employers, colleagues, and collaborators can learn about my background, view my work, and easily get in touch. It's designed to facilitate meaningful professional connections.

Continuous Learning & Growth

Building and maintaining this website allows me to stay current with web technologies, user experience design, and digital communication strategies – all valuable skills in today's technology-driven legal environment.

— Closing statement —

"This website represents my commitment to embracing technology in legal practice, and my vision for the future of law in our increasingly digital world."

Exhibit C — The Evidence

Projects, on the record.

5 entries
E-01 Jul 2025 – Current

Make Haste with Haast: Adaptive US Market Intelligence for Regulatory Content Review

Haast (Legal Tech Startup)

Haast is a high-growth legal tech startup leveraging AI to automate regulatory content review for enterprises. This 10-week project delivers an adaptive US market intelligence platform—providing real-time competitor mapping, industry segmentation, and pricing benchmarks specifically tailored for law-focused and compliance-driven markets. The result: actionable, continuously-updated strategies that empower Haast's team to navigate legal sector dynamics as they scale.

E-02 Aug 2024 – Dec 2024

Build & Buy: The All-in-One Legal Operations Suite

Nexl (Legal Tech Startup)

Nexl, a legal tech company empowering law firms with next-generation collaboration tools, will launch "Nexl One"—a unified platform combining advanced human resources and project management modules. By leveraging Nexl's CRM strengths, the project will streamline recruitment, staff retention, wellbeing tracking, and complex legal matter management. Nexl One aims to help law firms seamlessly manage both their people and projects within a single, integrated system.

E-03 Aug 2024 – Dec 2024

Cobhram Youth Justice Centre: Technology Implementation and Social Justice

Cobhram Youth Justice Centre

A project that engaged with the Cobham Youth Justice Centre to advise on how the detention centre can implement technology to raise the standard of care for the young people in their care and improve family engagement. This includes recommending a custom-built website and a mobile app to manage the centre's operations.

E-04 Jan 2025 – Jun 2025

G.Y.M.: Market Entry and Growth Strategy

Fortus Fit (Fitness Social Startup)

Fortus Fit, a gym-focused social app blending fitness tracking and community sharing, will implement the "G.Y.M." strategy—refining core features, adding personalized and social motivation tools, and driving user growth via university society partnerships and fitness expos to build Australia's leading gym community.

E-05 Aug 2023 – Dec 2023

US Entry – Compliance Innovation for Mining & Energy

MyPass Global (Workforce Compliance Startup)

MyPass, a workforce compliance start-up empowering workers with digital Skills Passports, will accelerate its entry into the US Mining and Oil & Gas sector through a three-part strategy: forming industry partnerships, hiring an expert Director of US Operations for direct sales, and launching an industry trial program to rapidly build brand awareness and client trust.

P-01 Jun 2025 – Current

Tech Law Blog

A blog that shares my thoughts on technology, law, and the intersection of the two. Developed and designed by hand with JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML and Markdown. You are currently on it!

P-02 Feb 2025 – Jun 2025

Machine Learning Engine

A high-performance ML framework combining supervised and unsupervised algorithms in a unified Python pipeline, featuring automated data ingestion, feature engineering, hyperparameter optimization, model evaluation, and interactive visualizations on real-world datasets.

P-03 Apr 2025 – Jun 2025

Collaborative Text Editor

A C-based, POSIX-threaded server–client system that hosts a Markdown-style document in a linked-list structure, receives atomic edit and formatting commands over named-pipe connections, enforces versioned concurrency control, and broadcasts real-time updates to all connected clients.

P-04 Feb 2025 – Apr 2025

Audio Editing Engine

An efficient C-based audio-editing backend that loads and saves WAV files, exposes sample-level track operations (read, write, delete, insert) via a shared-backing store for memory-efficient editing, and includes cross-correlation-driven advertisement detection and removal.

P-05 Jan 2024 – May 2024

Interactive LED Glow in the Dark Lamp Speaker System

Designing a multi-functional lamp speaker system with its glow-in-the-dark feature and customisable LED colours. The lamp/speaker connects via Bluetooth to Spotify and users can interact with it through the built-in display system. The product serves as a comforting and therapeutic nightlight to promote mental well-being in young people. Experience in pitching the product to a panel of commercial and academic investors.

P-06 Sep 2023 – Oct 2023

2-tape Deterministic Turing Machine

A deterministic 2-tape Turing machine that, given a finite-automaton encoding on one tape and an input string on the other, decides in polynomial time whether the string is accepted—using direct simulation for DFAs and on-the-fly subset construction for NFAs.

P-07 Feb 2023 – Jul 2023

2-Dimensional Action Maze Runner Videogame

A 2-dimensional animated action game, where the player navigates through multiple challenging levels while being pursued by mobs armed with ricocheting projectiles.

Respectfully submitted Victor Lin