Yim Lee
Software Engineer at Apple
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYim Lee is a full-stack software engineer based in San Jose with seven years of experience building scalable web applications and backend systems for startups and large teams, currently working at Apple. He brings strong Java expertise alongside modern web skills (HTML/CSS, JavaScript) and broad data experience across relational databases, NoSQL, Cassandra, Hadoop/MapReduce, and search technologies like Solr and Elasticsearch. At Apple and in notable open-source Swift projects he’s contributed backend model improvements and helped modernize build and release tooling for cross-platform compatibility, showing a blend of product-facing engineering and infrastructure/automation chops. Comfortable in agile startup environments, he’s delivered features across the stack using Java, Python, Groovy, and JVM frameworks, and has experience with A/B testing and third-party APIs. He is committed to staying in the San Francisco Bay Area and focuses on practical, durable solutions rather than relocation.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
San José State UniversityJohns Hopkins University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (14)
json10
swift10
bash10
cmake10
build-automation10
cryptography9
api9
assembly8
error-handling8
testing8
software-design8
package-management7
data-structure7
data-structures7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
swiftlang/swift-package-manager
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
The Package Manager for the Swift Programming Language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:557 reviews, 184 commits, 527 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Yim implemented changes to package collection models, including renaming fields and adding new functionalities like keywords, minimum platform versions, and authors. They also introduced a validator for JSON package collection models to check the number of packages and versions, and they fixed issues related to Linux builds and Swift 5.2. The user made additional updates to the package collection models, such as adding the latest release and prerelease versions to Package.Version, optional licenses to Package, and a combined verification for platform and swift versions.
swift-programming-languagepackage-managerswiftpmswift-programmingswift
apple/swift-crypto
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
Open-source implementation of a substantial portion of the API of Apple CryptoKit suitable for use on Linux platforms.
Role in this project:Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:29 reviews, 8 commits, 14 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Yim primarily contributed to the build system and scripts of the swift-crypto repository. Their work involved adding CMake build files to support integration with Swift Package Manager and enhancing the build process for different architectures and operating systems. They also modified scripts to handle assembly files, ensuring compatibility across various platforms, and set up the CMake build for the _CryptoExtras target. These modifications significantly impacted the project's build infrastructure.
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