Yako Lim
Manager at GovTech Singapore
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolYako Lim is a technology programme manager with 12 years’ experience leading digital identity and product management initiatives in Singapore’s public sector. As Manager of the National Digital Identity programme at GovTech, he blends funding strategy, financial oversight, and manpower planning to remove impediments and enable high-performing teams. His background in back-end engineering and database work is evidenced by contributions to high-profile open-source projects such as Alibaba’s fastjson and druid—fixing serialization, parser and ALTER TABLE parsing issues to improve stability. He brings pragmatic technical judgment to product pricing and cost-recovery planning, ensuring cashflows and contingencies are managed alongside delivery. Comfortable at the intersection of engineering and programme leadership, he translates complex technical risks into actionable funding and resourcing decisions. An oft-overlooked strength is his hands-on history with SQL parsing and JSON internals, which helps him bridge conversations between engineers and stakeholders.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering Informatics, Engineering Informatics at Nanyang PolytechnicBachelor of Information Technology, Information Technology, Bachelor of Information Technology, Information Technology at University of Wollongong
Github Skills (22)
json-parser10
json10
debug10
sql-parser10
mysql10
data-serialization10
java10
serialization10
javas10
deserialization10
parsing10
sql10
db-schema9
fastjson9
schema9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
alibaba/druid
Mar 2014 - Nov 2015
阿里云计算平台DataWorks(https://help.aliyun.com/document_detail/137663.html) 团队出品，为监控而生的数据库连接池
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:154 commits, 57 PRs, 41 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Yako primarily focused on fixing parsing errors related to `ALTER TABLE` statements, specifically for renaming tables and handling comments. They introduced new tests to validate the SQL wall's behavior related to `RENAME TABLE` and added support for `ALTER TABLE COMMENT` syntax. The user also made modifications to the SQL wall configuration, adding the ability to control whether `RENAME TABLE` statements are allowed.
aliyunmysqlsqldetaildatabase
alibaba/fastjson
May 2014 - Oct 2015
FASTJSON 2.0.x has been released, faster and more secure, recommend you upgrade.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 13 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Yako primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements to the `fastjson` library, a Java-based JSON processing library. Their contributions include addressing issues related to special character handling within serialization and deserialization processes, as well as improving JSON parser functionality. Further work involved updating the library version and fixing an issue related to enum serialization, showing a commitment to maintaining the library's stability and functionality.
objectmapperbest-performancegsonmmapjson-parser
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