# Harold Lim

> Staff Engineer at Kloudfuse

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/haroldlim

## Work Experience
### Staff Engineer @ Kloudfuse
Jan 2021 – Present

### Staff Engineer 2 @ VMware
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021

### Staff Engineer @ VMware
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019
Member of NSX controller team

### Senior Member of Technical Staff @ VMware
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
Member of Nicira NSX controller team

### Member of Technical Staff @ VMware
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
Member of Nicira NSX controller team

### Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science @ Duke University
Jan 2007 – Jan 2013
Cyclops: A Management System for Executing and Optimizing Continuous Queries
- Designed a system that abstracts out the underlying systems for running continuous queries by giving users a common interface to create and run continuous queries. 
- Designed an optimizer that can select the most appropriate execution plan, which includes the algorithm to use and system to run a given query.

Starfish: A Self-tuning System for Big Data Analytics
-Designed and implemented a system that can automatically optimize and execute data-parallel cluster workflows

Automated Control in Cloud Computing
-Designed a control system that ensures efficient and effective provisioning of resources of elastic applications, in the context of cloud computing
-Designed and implemented control policies for horizontally scaling stateless elastic applications and elastic storage systems

Vis-a-Vis Project
-Designed a privacy-preserving architecture that leverages on virtual individual servers in the cloud, for location-based online social networks

### Research Intern @ Microsoft Research
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Mountain View, California
Characterized interference in the memory subsystem in both cloud and enterprise settings

### Research Intern @ Microsoft Research
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Redmond, Washington
Designed and implemented an application-aware power budgeting system for virtualized data centers

### Software Engineer @ Northrop Grumman Corporation
Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 | Carson, CA
Software engineer for Force XXI Battle Command, Brigade-and-Below (FBCB2)/Battle Command Product Line Program

Designed and developed software modules for the FBCB2 Joint Capabilities Release Vehicle product

### Research Assistant @ Information Sciences Institute
Jan 2005 – Jan 2006
Designed new hardware components for converting the Catalina ROV into an autonomous underwater vehicle

Maintained and improved the hardware and software systems of the Catalina ROV used in the Catalina Project

Integrated the hardware modules for the Superbot project

### Summer Intern @ Sun Microsystems
Jan 2002 – Jan 2002 | Makati City, Philippines
Created a Web application for a knowledge-based mobile service using Java Enterprise Edition 2.0 (J2EE) and
SQLPlus

Created a CRM related network application for a large telecommunication carrier using Java and JSPs


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science
Duke University

### Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science
University of Southern California

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Engineering and Computer Science
University of Southern California

### Computer Science
Ateneo de Manila University

### Xavier School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/harold-lim-7b18b653
- Portfolio: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~harold

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Last updated: 2026-04-12