Irvin Lim
Senior Expert Software Engineer at Shopee
Singapore, Singapore
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Top SchoolIrvin Lim is a Senior Expert Software Engineer based in Singapore with 11 years of experience building and optimizing large-scale distributed systems, Kubernetes platforms, and cloud-native tooling. He specializes in resource utilization, container orchestration and Linux kernel features (cgroups, cpuset, eBPF, resctrl), having led projects that reclaimed hundreds of thousands of CPU cores and stabilized clusters of over 20,000 nodes. At Shopee he designed node-level agents and scheduling policies, standardized large-scale rollouts to cut deployment time 4x, and presented his team’s cost-optimization work at KubeCon Europe. Comfortable across the full stack, he started programming at age 10 and brings a pragmatic security mindset from earlier WAF and bug-bounty work. He prefers Go and maintains an active public profile (cv.irvinlim.com, irvinlim.com, github.com/irvinlim), blending research-level systems thinking with hands-on operational delivery.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Brown UniversityEntrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at NUS Overseas CollegesSingapore-Cambridge GCE 'A' Levels, Singapore-Cambridge GCE 'A' Levels at Raffles InstitutionBachelor of Computing (Honours) Computer Science, Bachelor of Computing (Honours) Computer Science at National University of Singapore
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (200)
hpa10
k8s10
recaptcha10
kubernetes-job10
scheduler10
argparse10
custom-fields10
kubernetes-cronjob10
advanced-custom-fields10
google-recaptcha10
command-line10
cobra10
cli-application10
aws-codebuild10
kubernetes10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
irvinlim/exchangebuddy
Aug 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:338 commits, 10 PRs, 95 pushes in 1 month
ethereumexchange
irvinlim/apple-health-ingester
Dec 2021 - Feb 2023
HTTP server to ingest and store Apple Health data from Health Auto Export to LocalFile, InfluxDB, and more
Contributions:21 reviews, 33 commits, 27 PRs in 1 year 1 month
health-dataapple-healthexporthealthauto-export
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