Zara Lim
Software Engineer at Starburst
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolZara Lim is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems and developer-facing tooling, currently working at Starburst in Vancouver. She spent several years at Confluent contributing to ksqlDB, focusing on backend development and clear, practical documentation for stream-processing SQL features like PARTITION BY. Her background includes internships at Google, Yelp, and Yahoo and research experience at BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute, demonstrating a blend of rigorous engineering and analytical research skills. Comfortable resolving merge conflicts and improving developer guides, she brings both code-level craftsmanship and an eye for communication that reduces onboarding friction for complex distributed systems. Trained in Engineering Physics at UBC, she pairs strong analytical instincts with production experience in high-throughput data platforms.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Engineering Physics, Bachelors, Engineering Physics at The University of British Columbia
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Github contributions (5)
confluentinc/ksql
Jun 2019 - Dec 2022
The database purpose-built for stream processing applications.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Technical Writer
Backend Developer & Technical WriterContributions:428 reviews, 249 commits, 341 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Zara primarily contributed to the documentation, including adding clarifications, examples, and new sections to the developer guide, specifically for SQL syntax like the PARTITION BY clause. Their work included refining the language, correcting errors, and clarifying the purpose and use of commands. Additionally, the user addressed merge conflicts and updated changelog documents.
materialized-viewsstream-processingstreaming-queriesksqldbsql
jzaralim/MendelianAssistant
Mar 2015 - Jun 2020
Contributions:8 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 4 months
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