Timothy Lim
Support Engineer at Supabase
Brunei
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolTimothy Lim is a seasoned support engineer and full-stack developer with 14 years’ experience bridging customer-facing support and hands-on product engineering. He has advanced through technical support roles at Intercom and Platform.sh to Elite Support Engineer and now supports Supabase, bringing deep operational knowledge of cloud platforms and developer tools. Timothy contributes to prominent open-source projects like Insomnia, DevDocs, and Electron Fiddle, demonstrating comfort across UI, backend, and tooling changes—including fixes to API client code generation and documentation scrapers. He combines pragmatic engineering (C#.NET, LAMP, modern JS/Electron) with sustainable processes such as version control, testing and documentation to reduce operational friction. Based in Brunei and holding a first-class Computer Engineering degree from NUS, he’s equally at home mentoring teams and shipping bug fixes that improve developer workflows. An underrated strength is his long-standing experience delivering mission-critical government and SaaS systems, reflecting both reliability and adaptability.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer, 1st Class Honours, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer, 1st Class Honours at National University of Singapore
English, Malay
Github Skills (21)
javascript10
fastapi10
electron10
python10
api-client10
typescript10
api-documentation10
typescript-types10
html10
typescripts10
react10
documentation10
wpgraphql9
swagger9
css9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Kong/insomnia
Oct 2018 - Sep 2021
The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC. With Cloud, Local and Git storage.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 9 commits, 11 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Timothy contributed to multiple areas of the Insomnia API client, including fixing Python code generation for Requests, supporting Swagger tag imports, and correcting issues within the UI. Their work involved modifying core application files related to importers, models, and UI components. Furthermore, the user addressed bugs related to content type handling and GraphQL integration, demonstrating a good understanding of the application's architecture and diverse features.
grpcgraphql-restrest-apiapi-clientapi
electron/fiddle
Nov 2021 - Oct 2022
:electron: 🚀 The easiest way to get started with Electron
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 7 commits, 6 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Timothy primarily contributed to the user interface aspects of the Electron Fiddle project, refactoring existing examples to align with the latest Electron security defaults. Their work involved modifying HTML, JavaScript (preload scripts and main process integrations), and CSS (styling). The contributions encompassed updates to examples showcasing various Electron APIs like `desktopCapturer`, `crashReporter`, `notification`, `webframe`, and `screen`, ensuring they function correctly with modern Electron versions.
electronget-startedjavascriptdesktopmacos
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