Terence Yim
Senior Staff Software Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolTerence Yim is a Senior Staff Software Engineer and software architect with 13 years of experience designing and shipping scalable, high-performance distributed systems across companies from Yahoo to LinkedIn, Cask (acquired by Google), and now Google Cloud. He blends hands-on backend development, security-focused engineering, and system-level architecture—most recently contributing to Google Cloud Data Fusion and upstream open-source projects like CDAP, Apache Twill and Tephra. Terence has a track record of building low-latency, globally deployed infrastructure such as real-time scoring and pub/sub systems, and has led migration and integration efforts that hardened transaction and key management in distributed modes. An active Apache committer and PPMC chair, he pairs rigorous testing and refactoring discipline with practical design for production reliability. Based in the Bay Area, he holds a BE and an MPhil from The University of Hong Kong and brings both startup CTO experience and large-cloud engineering leadership to complex data-platform challenges.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
English, Chinese, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
javas10
user-authentication10
authentication10
k8s10
java10
testing10
security9
gson8
kryo8
guava6
maven6
hadoop-yarn6
hadoop6
apache6
janino6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cdapio/cdap
Jan 2013 - Oct 2022
An open source framework for building data analytic applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1303 reviews, 5065 commits, 2229 PRs in 9 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Terence primarily focused on improving the authentication server test by removing dependencies and streamlining the code, indicating work on the backend security infrastructure. Their contributions included refactoring the test setup and writing tests for the authentication server, suggesting a focus on backend functionality and testing. They also introduced new methods in KeyValue classes, and added support for the file based key manager in distributed mode. They made changes to the code around the log processing with a number of fixes and refactorings.
integrationpythonanalyticsanalyticjava-8
cdapio/common
Oct 2014 - Mar 2019
Common library
Contributions:19 reviews, 14 commits, 4 PRs in 4 years 5 months
fibercommon-library
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