Terry Lim
Senior Software Engineer at Indeed.com
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolTerry Lim is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 12 years of experience building and modernizing distributed systems across startups and enterprise environments. He has led teams and delivered production-grade order management and fulfillment systems, migrating legacy workflows to serverless architectures using Saga patterns, AWS Lambda, Step Functions, and DynamoDB. At Indeed he works on resume search and subscription/purchase domains, blending Java backend services with React front-ends and GraphQL at scale. Previously he combined hands-on engineering and executive responsibilities as a software development manager, driving revenue-impacting features, CI/CD adoption, and cost optimizations across e-commerce platforms. Known for pragmatic leadership, Terry balances technical depth with business acumen—often stepping into interim tech lead roles and continuously improving operational reliability. His background from the University of Toronto and broad tech stack fluency make him adept at translating complex product needs into resilient, observable systems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
International Exchange Student Program, International Exchange Student Program at Korea UniversityHonours Bachelor of Science, BSc, Computer Science, Honours Bachelor of Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of Toronto
Github Skills (51)
visualization10
qt10
python10
data-science10
matplotlib10
gtk10
data-visualization10
latex9
resume8
displays8
brightness7
macbook-pro7
virtual7
thor6
gauge6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Eiledon/alloworigin
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
An open source, django alternative to AnyOrigin.com and WhateverOrigin.org
Contributions:24 commits in 1 month
djangopythondjango-alternative
xraycodes/HospitalEmergeNameEntry
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Tried making google homepage using basic CSS and HTML
Contributions:14 reviews, 4 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 month
cssjavascripthtml5css3
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