Cynthia Lin is a 15-year-old high school student from Torrance, California. A full-stack developer at heart, she has extensive experience developing software, web applications, automated bots, and games through various projects. As an avid supporter of open source software, Cynthia actively contributes to the Zulip open source group chat application as a core developer and the lead developer of zulipbot. She placed as a Finalist in Google Code-in 2016 for her accomplishments in open source software and has presented her experiences as a high school student in the open source community at several technology conferences.