Joseph Harrison-lim
Full Stack Software Engineer at Hive.co
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJoseph Harrison-lim is a full stack software engineer with nine years of experience building resilient web platforms, leading client-facing features, and optimizing Postgres and Kubernetes at scale. He moves fluidly between Rails, React, Scala, and systems work—routinely shipping performance and security improvements that have produced multi‑order query speedups and increased platform stability. At Pixlee/Emplifi he led product tagging delivery, integration efforts, and internal tooling while mentoring teammates and managing releases and on-call incidents. An active open-source contributor, he has enhanced the popular Helix modal editor and spends spare time reading compiler codebases, contributing to Rust Analyzer and compiling his own Ruby with a personal flag. He’s currently focused on platform and web engineering at Hive.co in Toronto while privately developing a Rust compiler aimed at advancing type inference and compile-time evaluation for a dynamic language. This blend of production discipline, deep systems curiosity, and practical tooling improvements makes him a reliable engineer who also delights in low-level experimentation.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Donald A Wilson Secondary SchoolAdvanced Diploma Software Engineering Technology (Co-Op), Advanced Diploma Software Engineering Technology (Co-Op) at Centennial College
English, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
rust10
text-editor10
kakoune10
command-line-interface9
vim9
configuration-management9
user-interface8
refactoring8
refactor8
css6
tiktok6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
helix-editor/helix
Mar 2022 - Oct 2022
A post-modern modal text editor.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:28 reviews, 11 commits, 14 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily contributed to enhancing the Helix text editor's functionality. They added features such as commands to open scratch buffers in horizontal and vertical splits. Furthermore, they implemented commands for opening and refreshing the configuration file, as well as adding a live preview to the theme picker. Their work also involved bug fixes and refactoring of existing code, demonstrating a strong understanding of the editor's codebase.
text-editorvimrustkakoune
jharrilim/cybil
Apr 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:39 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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