Yao Lim
Engineering Manager at 6sense
Singapore
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Top SchoolYao Lim is an Engineering Manager based in Singapore with 12 years of hands-on experience building and hardening web systems, particularly in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript. He has moved from full-stack and backend engineering roles into leadership, most recently focusing on the human side of engineering at 6sense after driving generative-AI and hyper-personalisation features at Saleswhale. Yao has a strong track record modernising legacy systems—migrating Rails apps, refactoring test suites for huge speedups, and designing reusable abstraction modules for government grant platforms. He is pragmatic about agile delivery, obsessive about well-designed code and systems, and actively involved in open source tooling in the RoR/JS ecosystem. Beyond shipping features, he brings operational rigor—CI/CD, distributed analytics, and low-latency event processing—to ensure products are reliable at scale.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)Diploma in Information Security, Diploma in Information Security at Nanyang Polytechnic
English, Chinese, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
omniauth10
pg-search10
trumbowyg10
javascript10
react10
jquery-plugin10
scopes10
trigrams10
metaphone10
discord-bot10
multi-search10
token-based-authentication9
cut9
magicmirror9
api9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
causztic/digital-world
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:277 commits, 5 PRs, 186 pushes in 3 months
causztic/amaterasu
May 2018 - Jan 2022
local file storage platform. Go with Vue
Contributions:21 PRs, 28 pushes, 10 branches in 3 years 8 months
golangfile-storagevuestoragevuejs
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