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Victor Lin

Law & Computer Science Student | Technology and Legal Professional | Aspiring Technology Lawyer

About Me

3rd-4th year bilingual (English/mandarin) law and computer science (minor in artificial intelligence) student with a strong academic background and over 3 years of legal work experience. I aspire for a career in technology law.

Why I Created This Website

In today's digital landscape, I believe that having a personal website is essential for any professional, especially for someone at the intersection of law and technology like myself. This website serves multiple purposes:

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

Professional Experience

Paralegal

McCabes Lawyers

Sydney

Sep 2023 - Current
Providing services to corporate clients relating to statutory insurance matters at a national mid-tier firm. This includes communicating legal procedures and principles with various parties, legal research, court experience and drafting legal/court documents to achieve target billables of 5-6 hours a day.

Head of Legal Administration and Compliance

Lima AI (Start-up)

Sydney

Jun 2025 - Current
Responsible for the legal administration and compliance of a ed-tech start-up currently serving schools for language speaking. This includes managing the start-up's legal obligations drafting legal documents before review by external solicitors and research. This is a non-legal role and all tasks is permitted upon confirmation from The Law Society of NSW.

Co-founder

MyMeal (Start-up)

Sydney

Jan 2025 - Current
A mobile dietary social-media application that promotes consistency and motivation for home-cooking. Practical development of data & privacy compliance along with AI integration within the software.

Technology Consultant

Deloitte

Canberra

Nov 2024 - Jan 2025
Part of the Industry, Cloud, and Engineering Team under the Engineering AI and Data Unit advising federal government agencies. Managing web-development projects along with key research into the development of legislations within the autonomous vehicle tech sector.

Technology Implementation

Department of Infrastructure

Canberra

Nov 2024 - Jan 2025
Secondment through Deloitte.

Paralegal

Turner Freeman Lawyers

Sydney

July 2023 - Sep 2023
Assisting plaintiffs on personal injury matters. Responsible at times to co-manage over 300 ongoing matters and leading one-on-one interviews/meetings with clients.

Various Law Clerk Positions

Multiple Firms

Sydney

Apr 2022 - July 2023
Firms: Maurice Byers Chambers, Crisp Law, Alton Legal, Ou Yang & Lee Lawyers
  • Drafting submissions for legal proceedings, wills, and contracts for commercial clients
  • Conducting relevant legal research concerning the Sydney Harbour Bridge (Administration) 1932 Act that advised North Sydney Council and Richard Lancaster Senior Counsel

Education

Bachelor of Law/Bachelor of Science (Computer Science)

University of Sydney

Sydney

Jan 2022 - Current
Dalyell Scholar High Achieving Student Stream
WAM: Distinction

Competition Achievements:

  • 2025 University of Sydney Law Society Summer Negotiation: Semi Finalist
  • Corrs Chambers Westgarth Senior Negotiation 2024: Quarter Finalist
  • Ashurst Client Interviewing 2024 and 2023: Quarter Finalist
  • Kearney National BusinessOne Case Competition: Campus Finalist
  • Sydney University Business Society x 180 Degree Consulting Social Impact Case Competition: Second Place
  • University of Sydney Law Society Social Justice Criminal Pitch 2023: Second Place
  • BusinessOne Consulting 2023 University of Sydney Consulting Comp: Second Place
  • BusinessOne Consulting 2023 Intervarsity USYD x UNSW x MELB Case Comp: Finalist

Bachelor of Science (Computer Science)

University of Edinburgh

Edinburgh, UK

Jan 2024 - Jun 2024
Exchange Program
Overall 2024 Semester 1 grades: Distinction
Notable course: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Computer Science Capstone Project: First

Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (Computer Science)

London School of Economics

Remote

Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
Summer course

International Baccalaureate

St Paul's Grammar School

Cranebrook

2011 - 2021
Grade: 44/45, equivalent to an ATAR of 99.75
Achievement: Proxime Accessit of the 2021 Class

Leadership & Extra-Curricular

Head of Events

University of Sydney Software Engineering

Oct 2024 - Current
Core executive position in charge of organising industry networking events and liaising with software engineering firms. Responsible for managing a team of 20+ people.

Engagement Director

BusinessOne Consulting

July 2023 - Current
Executive responsible for liaising with commercial clients on health tech consulting projects.
  • Project director for a project that assisted Nexl, a legal-tech firm, in achieving No.7 on 2024 AFR Fast 100
  • Advising MyPass Global, a multi-national cloud-based software company, to navigate the current regulatory environment in the US Mining and O&G environment for market penetration

National-level Powerlifter

Australian Powerlifting Union

Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Training and competing at a national level in powerlifting. Training 10-15 hours weekly. Discontinued due to an injury.
150kg
Bench Press
240kg
Deadlift
185kg
Squat
575kg
Combined Total

Public Relations Director

University of Sydney Barbell Club

Aug 2023 - Current
Executive responsible for organising events with 50+ attendance along with market promotion.

Negotiation Judge and Problem Writer

University of Sydney Law Society

Mar 2025 - Current
Responsible for judging and writing problems for the University of Sydney Law Society Negotiation Competition.

Youth Justice Mentoring Scheme

University of Sydney Law Society

Apr 2022 - Nov 2024
Responsible for planning and implementing session plans at Cobham Youth Justice Centre. This involves working with the criminal justice system and the young people at the centre.

Projects

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

Haast (Legal Tech Startup)

Jul 2025 - Current
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.

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

Nexl (Legal Tech Startup)

Aug 2024 - Dec 2024
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.

Cobhram Youth Justice Centre: Technology Implementation and Social Justice

Cobhram Youth Justice Centre

Aug 2024 - Dec 2024
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.

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

Fortus Fit (Fitness Social Startup)

Jan 2025 - Jun 2025
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.

US Entry – Compliance Innovation for Mining & Energy

MyPass Global (Workforce Compliance Startup)

Aug 2023 - Dec 2023
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.

Tech Law Blog

Jun 2025 - Current
A blog that shares my thoughts on technology, law, and the intersection of the two. Developed and designed by hand with JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML_first and Markdown. You are currently on it!

Machine Learning Engine

Feb 2025 - Jun 2025
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.

Collaborative Text Editor

Apr 2025 - Jun 2025
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.

Audio Editing Engine

Feb 2025 - Apr 2025
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.

Interactive LED Glow in the Dark Lamp Speaker System

Jan 2024 - May 2024
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.

2-tape Deterministic Turing Machine

Sep 2023 - Oct 2023
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..

2-Dimensional Action Maze Runner Videogame

Feb 2023 - July 2023
A 2-dimensional animated action game, where the player navigates through multiple challenging levels while being pursued by mobs armed with ricocheting projectiles.