Joe Lim
Software Engineer at Iress
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Lim is a software engineer based in Melbourne with five years' experience building back-end systems for real-time, high-frequency market data at Iress and contributing to open-source terminal tooling. He combines C/C++ and Python expertise with cloud and DevOps practices—AWS, Terraform, Docker and CI/CD pipelines—to deliver automated, production-ready services and champion clean coding through mentoring and code reviews. Joe has hands-on experience with performance optimization from his CUDA-accelerated image recognition research and practical Rust and systems work demonstrated by contributions improving functionality and docs in the popular lf terminal file manager. Comfortable across Windows, macOS and Linux, he bridges engineering and customer-facing support, and frequently leads Agile rituals to keep delivery predictable and collaborative.
5 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Commerce - BCom, Finance, Bachelor of Commerce - BCom, Finance at Monash University
Github Skills (8)
terminal-ui10
file-management10
go10
terminal-application10
documentation9
fileio9
file-operations9
filesystem9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gokcehan/lf
Dec 2022 - Mar 2025
Terminal file manager
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:221 reviews, 286 PRs, 132 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Joe focused on improving the terminal file manager's functionality and documentation. They made adjustments to UI elements, fixed documentation for options, and refactored code related to directory printing and line number display. They also worked on file operations like deleting stale cache entries and updating file information.
filemanagerlinuxterminalncursesfile-manager
joelim-work/lf
Jun 2023 - Jul 2024
Terminal file manager
Contributions:6 PRs, 244 pushes, 167 branches in 1 year 1 month
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