Brendan Lim
Senior Product Manager at Angel
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolBrendan Lim is a senior product leader with 17 years of experience building developer and consumer products across startups and Google, currently shaping product strategy at Google and advising early-stage companies as a Venture Partner. A former YC founder and co-founder/CPO of Kicksend, he blends founder grit with enterprise product rigor—having launched Cloud Functions for Firebase and led Google Assistant and Lyft growth initiatives. He pairs product leadership with hands-on engineering roots, contributing to open-source projects like firebase-tools and mobile-fu that improved mobile detection and CLI UX. An author of two technical books on iOS and MacRuby, he brings deep mobile and developer tooling expertise alongside a track record of successful angel investments. Based in San Jose, he’s equally comfortable shipping product features, iterating on developer experiences, and mentoring startups scaling internationally.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Co-founder at Kicksend (S11), Co-founder at Kicksend (S11) at Y CombinatorBachelors of Engineering, Wireless Software Engineering, Bachelors of Engineering, Wireless Software Engineering at Auburn University
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Github Skills (15)
html10
css10
ruby-rails10
rails10
mobile-development10
user-agent10
ruby10
cli9
ui-design9
graphical-user-interface9
user-interface9
rspec9
javascript8
documentation8
firebase7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
brendanlim/mobile-fu
Mar 2009 - Apr 2014
Automatically detect mobile requests from mobile devices in your Rails application.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 commits in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Brendan contributed to the development of a Rails application by modifying user agent string checks and adding support for mobile devices, including the Palm Pre and iPad. Their work primarily focused on enhancing the application's ability to detect and respond to mobile requests, improving the user experience on various devices. The commits demonstrate modifications to both the backend logic (mobile_fu.rb) and the frontend styles (mobilized_styles.rb, mobile_fu_helper.rb) to support mobile devices. Furthermore, there is a contribution to testing the mobile device recognition.
mobile-detectrailsrails-applicationrubydetect
firebase/firebase-tools
Apr 2016 - Jun 2017
The Firebase Command Line Tools
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 5 comments, 3 issues in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Brendan primarily focused on updating and improving the user interface elements within the Firebase CLI tools. Their work involved modifying HTML templates for login success, failure, and hosting, including changes to styling, link formatting (to buttons), and documentation links. Additionally, the user contributed to the `commands/open.js` file, suggesting some involvement in overall CLI functionality and user experience. This role is consistent with the project being a command-line tool.
firebasecommand-line-toolscli
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