Susan Sim
Principal at Leading Intelligence
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSusan Sim is a principal software leader and founder with 12 years of industry experience and a PhD in computer science, currently driving AI-enabled engineering practices and readiness assessments at Leading Intelligence. She has led large teams and mission-critical systems—most recently directing Loblaw Digital’s pharmacy service that processed $700M in prescriptions annually and supporting COVID-19 patient enrollment at scale. As CEO of two boutique ventures she applies inclusive design and supply-chain innovation to underserved users and small farms, building products from iPad apps for children to digital oral histories. Her background spans academia and industry—from an NSF-funded research career at UCI and lecturing at the University of Toronto to coaching architects at McKinsey—so she blends rigorous research, teaching, and hands-on delivery. Colleagues describe her as a builder who codifies best practices for integrating AI into complex legacy codebases while convening practitioner communities for hands-on learning.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at University of TorontoB.Sc., Psychology and computer science, B.Sc., Psychology and computer science at University of Toronto - University College
French, German, Spanish, Italian
Github Skills (38)
ionic-cli9
storage8
javascript7
aws-s37
ionic7
aws7
react7
nodejs6
aws-amplify6
amplify6
react-native6
angular5
cli5
analytics5
barrage5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
benevolentprof/inf1340-2015-notebooks
Oct 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
pythonfallipython-notebooksuoftnotebooks
benevolentprof/verbose-giggle
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches, 1 tag in 9 days
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