Stanley Lim is a backend software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building highly scalable Ads APIs at Snap from his base in Seattle. He specializes in distributed systems and web security, shipping production services in Java and Go on AWS and GCP while leveraging container and orchestration tooling like Docker and Kubernetes. A Summa Cum Laude Stony Brook graduate and former AWS engineer, he combines cloud-native engineering with hands-on system software and full-stack experience (Angular/React, MongoDB, Redis). An avid open-source contributor, he maintains a self-updating GitHub README project that automates profile and stats aggregation and has contributed front-end improvements to the Cirrus SCSS framework—evidence of a developer who cares about both developer experience and production robustness.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Regents Diploma with Honors, Advanced Regents Diploma with Honors at Hicksville High School
Bachelor of Science - BS Summa Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science - BS Summa Cum Laude at Stony Brook University
:gem: Me. This is a self-updating README. Star it if you like it :)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:23 commits, 1 PR, 29 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Stanley primarily contributed to a self-updating README generator, implementing the functionality to dynamically display content such as a user's profile, recent blog posts, tools used, and stats. They integrated various technologies like Node.js, Markdown, and external APIs to gather and display information. The user also set up a GitHub Actions build file, automated tasks, and updated links within the README.
Contributions:17 releases, 7 reviews, 1708 commits in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Stanley made several commits focused on front-end development within the Cirrus framework. Their contributions primarily involved adding and refactoring spacing and button styling classes within the framework's SCSS files, including adding viewport-specific support. Additionally, the user fixed several bugs related to button and menu layouts, enhancing the overall visual consistency of the project. They also contributed to updating the general styling to match modern web standards.
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.