Kevin Lim
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Lim is a software development engineer with 11 years of experience and a 9+ year track record as a strong generalist building scalable backend systems, currently contributing to Amazon's Prime Air team in Seattle. He specializes in microservices and high-performance Scala backends, having driven significant efficiency gains at Hootsuite—including a 400% speedup in thumbnail generation—while earlier roles emphasized modular image and feed processing. Comfortable across the stack, Kevin has repeatedly taken legacy, monolithic functionality and reimplemented it as robust services using technologies like Akka and Play. He combines practical production experience with an engineering degree from UBC and a pattern of measurable impact on performance and maintainability in both startup and large-company environments.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Engineering at The University of British Columbia
English, Chinese
Github Skills (13)
parquet10
dataframes10
rust10
frame10
python10
dataframe10
arrow-js9
arrow-keys9
arrows9
database5
admin5
database-administration5
databases5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kszlim/osu-replay-parser
Jan 2016 - Oct 2022
Parser for osr (osu! replays) file format
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 41 commits in 6 years 10 months
file-formatpythonosrreplaysosu
kszlim/kszlim.github.io
May 2015 - Dec 2019
Contributions:11 pushes in 4 years 8 months
start-bootstrapgrayscalejekylljekyll-themebootstrap-theme
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