Summary
Alexander Lim is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 12 years of hands-on experience building high-quality iOS products at Meta, Airtable, Twitch, Twitter, and Microsoft. A University of Waterloo BCS alum, he has a deep iOS background from internships through senior roles, shipping features from core app services to complex media and collaboration use cases. He excels at taking user-facing mobile features from prototype to production—examples include VOD deep-linking and resume-watching at Twitch and Excel features at Microsoft—bringing both product sensibility and low-level engineering rigor. Comfortable in fast-paced, cross-functional teams, he blends a strong foundation in native app architectures with practical experience in real-time systems and developer tooling. Notably, his career shows a consistent thread of working on the intersection of media, collaboration, and performance-sensitive client code.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS), Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS) at University of Waterloo