Raphael-joel Lim is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating backend systems for live games and fast-moving product teams, currently leading Core Services at Limit Break in Shibuya. He has deep experience with application servers, real-time socket infrastructure, cloud-native deployment, and blockchain integrations—having owned web3 backend components and NFT marketplace work for Legendary: Heroes Unchained. Raphael-joel is pragmatic about developer experience, repeatedly introducing tooling and platform improvements (Terraform, Redis Cluster, Spring DI, PyPy, AWS autoscaling) to speed delivery and reduce operational friction. A Stanford-trained mathematician, he pairs rigorous thinking with hands-on coding across Java, Python, TypeScript, and infrastructure-as-code. He also maintains asbplayer, a popular open-source language-learning app, reflecting a long-term interest in practical, user-focused tooling beyond his day job.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics at Stanford University
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Raphael-joel Lim - Senior Software Engineer at Limit Break