Lionell Loh
Software Engineer at Meta
Singapore, Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolLionell Loh is a software engineer with 8 years of experience focused on distributed systems, reliability, and performance engineering, currently building infra at Meta. He founded and led the Video Infra Orchestrator that handled billions of workflows per day, and now works on agentic memory and batch inference orchestration. Lionell moves quickly from problem discovery to impact—shipping code, process changes, or social alignment—and prides himself on collaboration and delivering useful abstractions that help other engineers do the right thing. He contributes to Homebrew, adding license automation and SPDX checks, showing attention to developer ergonomics and open-source stewardship. A former platoon commander and startup investor, he blends operational discipline, mentorship, and product sensibility. Outside work he tinkers on personal projects (mostly under ~/Users/lionell/projects), reads and runs to recharge.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)Hwa Chong Institution
Github Skills (5)
homebrew10
json10
package-management10
ruby10
github-api9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Homebrew/brew
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:129 commits, 5 PRs, 42 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Lionell primarily contributed to the `brew` package manager, making several changes to the audit functionality. Their work involved checking for SPDX license compliance, including verifying license data and integrating checks against a GitHub repository. They also added functionality to create a license field automatically.
brewpackage-managerlinuxrubymissing
boardify-sutd/boardify_backend
May 2019 - Jun 2019
Backend API built with Django. Continuously integrated with Docker and Travis-CI.
Contributions:49 commits, 4 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 month
apipythonintegrateddjango-rest-frameworkdjango
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