Founder & Head coach
Ken Lin
Founder & Head Coach · ex-Google Senior Engineering Manager
About Ken
Ken is a veteran engineering leader and career advisor with over 20 years of experience managing high-performing teams at major technology enterprises including Google, Amazon, and Oracle. As a former Senior Engineering Manager at Google, he spent over a decade driving the development of large-scale infrastructure and major cross-team projects such as Chrome, Google Meet Hardware, and Google Apps. In addition to his deep technical expertise in software architecture and systems design, Ken has an extensive track record in talent acquisition, organizational construction, and personnel development — having overseen dozens of performance reviews and vetted thousands of technical candidate evaluations.
Driven by a passion for cultivating the next generation of tech leaders, Ken is the founder and head coach of Commit Way. Through tailored 1-1 coaching, small-group instruction, and public speaking mentorship rooted in strategic career frameworks, he has successfully empowered more than 500 software professionals to navigate critical job transitions, secure promotions, and master engineering leadership. Beyond direct coaching, Ken is deeply committed to community building; he has constructed a professional network from the ground up that now connects over 20,000 tech practitioners, providing them with the insights, soft skills, and strategic mindsets necessary to thrive at top-tier industry organizations.
Coaches with Ken
Offerings Ken personally coaches:
- System Design Interview Coaching Bring your distributed system design skill to the next level.
- Introduction to Management Build a framework to adapt to the requirements of an engineering manager.
- Promotion Readiness Coaching Learn, build trust, and find and own impactful projects in a new work environment.
- Career Planning Coaching Build a framework to increase your impact, grow your career, and achieve the recognition and promotion you work hard for.
- Transitioning into a New Job Learn, build trust, and find and own impactful projects in a new work environment.
What clients say
I was referred to know Ken through a good friend of mine, and I attended a few 1-on-1 sessions with Ken mainly because I wanted to find a way to grow my career. During the sessions, Ken was very attentive to listen to everything I said, and took notes to understand everything that was going on. He would always follow up with a list of action items for me …
Ken Lin’s career consulting service has been incredibly helpful to me! I found Ken during a challenging period in my career, and after listening to my situation, he guided me on how to identify my manager’s pain points and emphasized their importance, as well as how to have effective and productive conversations with my manager. He also coached …
As a recent Computer Science graduate, I found the job market to be extremely challenging. After sending out over 100 resumes, I only received a couple of interviews, including one at a FAANG company. I knew I had to be fully prepared for this opportunity. Ken provided me with six coaching sessions focused on algorithm questions. We not only practiced …
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