Chen-i Lim
AR VR Software Engineer at Apple
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChen-i Lim is an AR/VR software engineer with seven years of experience and a track record of shipping product-grade software across startups and major tech companies. Currently building AR/VR systems at Apple, Chen-i previously led product and architecture at Mattermost where they conceived and shipped Focalboard—an open-source project that garnered widespread adoption and 21K+ stars on GitHub—and scaled Boards into a self-hostable alternative to Trello/Notion. They combine hands-on full‑stack engineering (Go, Postgres, React, TypeScript, Swift, C#) with executive product leadership experience, having served as VP of Product and presented roadmaps to boards. Earlier roles include founding a prolific iOS app studio that produced multiple top-100 apps and senior engineering at Microsoft driving Excel/BI features and distributed query engines. Based in Bellevue, WA, Chen-i pairs a strong electrical engineering foundation (BSEE/MSEE) with a habit of “Always Be Coding,” balancing rapid prototyping with shipping resilient, mission-critical systems. An entrepreneurially minded engineer, they have shifted between deep technical execution and strategic product leadership while consistently delivering open-source and commercial impact.
7 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MSEE Electrical engineering, MSEE Electrical engineering at Arizona State University
Github Skills (64)
wkwebview10
javascript10
webview10
react-native10
trello10
project-management10
canvas10
lifecycle10
charts10
css10
graph10
actionscript10
cross-platform10
webkit10
asana10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
chenilim/focalboard
Jan 2021 - Jun 2022
Focalboard is an open source project management app for individuals and teams.
Contributions:5 PRs, 108 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year 4 months
continuous-testingreactagilejavascriptfirebase
afro-coder/focalboard
Jun 2021 - Oct 2021
Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana.
Contributions:24 commits in 4 months
notionasanahostedfocalboardtrello
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