# Jim L.

> Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jiml

4 years of web development experience at startups. Primarily a full stack developer in Ruby on Rails and React. Have a wide breadth of other skills that include site reliability, DevOps, client-facing communication, mentorship, and product management.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ City and County of San Francisco
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Sendoso
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
- Worked with an agile development process: two-week sprints, daily standups, sprint planning, and twice-weekly backlog grooming
- Upgraded features and migrated data for a monolithic Rails app
- Fixed and maintained UI, API integrations, database transactions, and internal tooling
- Triaged and handled fraudulent financial transactions and critical production incidents
- Lead incident postmortems
- Documented coding best practices and application integrations

### Full Stack Developer / Product Engineer @ Creator Deck
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States
- Built media management features with React and RESTful APIs to facilitate the organization of image and video content
- Created new database queries and re-wrote old ones to efficiently process large amounts of social media data into meaning insights
- Wrote end-to-end tests with Cypress to assist in moving to a new major version of Ruby on Rails
- Interfaced directly with clients to address bugs ad gather requirements for new feature requests
- Followed an agile development process: one-week sprints, daily standups, sprint planning, and story pointing
- Refactored and upgraded automated processes that gather data from social media websites
- Maintained servers by fixing memory leaks, cleaning up hard disk space, and managing database dumps
- Led a greenfield project by conducting qualitative research, writing product requirements, drafting a feature roadmap, and architecting the database schema
- Led the screening process for new front and back end engineers by creating technical exercises and conducting technical and non-technical screenings
- Wrote wiki articles for onboarding new engineers

### Front End Developer @ Disaster Accountability Project
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Remote
- Front end developer on an Angular app that handles large amounts data
- Implemented features like Twitter and Google News feeds, rich text editor input form, and embedded widget used on external sites
- Investigated and fixed a wide range of bugs, from minor styling issues to Javascript errors that require deep digging
- Refactor front-end code to accommodate changes made in back-end API

### Contract Web Developer @ NETWORKISTICS, INC.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Pleasanton, California, United States
- Creating custom web app tools for clients
- Set up GitHub workflow for a small development team; tracking issues/features
- Writing interactive UIs with javascript and CSS
- Assist with back-end work by adjusting database queries and shell scripts to populate databases


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
UC San Diego
Jan 2008 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jimxlin
- Website: https://www.jimxlin.com

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Source: https://flows.cv/jiml
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jiml/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-23