# Melinda Lim > Senior Software Engineer Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/melindalim My technical expertise straddles platform and product, specifically high scale distributed systems, multi-region design, data quality monitoring, enterprise SaaS, and hardware products. I do an abundance of mentorship with Cornell students and individuals from underrepresented backgrounds in technology. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Netflix Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Los Gatos, California, United States Delivery Team ### Software Engineer @ Afresh Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area - Inventory Team - Adherence Report Delivery System ### Senior Software Engineer @ Uber Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area Location Platform @ Uber - Location Infrastructure at Uber - the highest volume upload vertical at Uber at 330K QPS circa March 2022 - Map Matching: snapping raw driver locations onto the road network - Rider and Eater location: Rebuilding the location verticals to increase rider and eater locations coverage. This unblocked inferences such as side of street detection. - Shadowmatching for New Mobility: Using GNSS metadata (signal-to-noise ratio) to determine likelihood of a GPS location. https://www.uber.com/blog/rethinking-gps/ UberAI Next - Item Reordering ### Software Engineer @ Stripe Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area I worked on the alternative payment methods team. We help Stripe users grow their revenue and internationalize their business by enabling them to offer the payment methods their customers prefer. Practically speaking we build behind the Sources API and integrate with multiple payment providers to enable customers to buy from Stripe merchants using a variety of payment methods, including bank transfers (like ACH and BACS) and digital wallets (Alipay, WeChatPay). I worked closely with financial partnerships, accounting, risk, and operations to enable Klarna as a payment method for Stripe merchants. ### Software Engineer II @ Microsoft Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Redmond, WA I worked as a full stack engineer on Microsoft Flow - a workflow automation tool. While working on Flow I fell in love with back end development, system design, and solving problems for multi-region, data intensive cloud services. I specialized in aysnchronous system design and data sovereignty. Some of my favorite projects included: - Building infrastructure to schedule background jobs across Azure geos - Building a data pipeline to integrate with the Office 365 Security and Compliance Center - Building infrastructure for billing enforcement In my last four months on the Flow team I worked with a virtual team across the Business Applications Group to achieve GDPR compliance for Flow. I also inherited and maintained the big data streams that powered our usage dashboards. ### Software Engineer II @ Microsoft Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Redmond, Wa Skype Meeting Room Experiences on Surface Hub and Skype Room Systems. I worked on meeting join, search, messaging, and feedback scenarios. ### Software Developer Engineer in Test, Windows User Experience @ Microsoft Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Redmond, WA Windows Phone, Backup Migration Restore (Oct 2013 - Feb 2014): I wrote backup and restore automation for alarms, ringtones, photo settings, and ringer settings Windows 8.1, Cloud Experience (Sept 2012 - August 2013): Automated personalization settings tests including app list roaming among several devices logged in with the same Microsoft account. Windows 8 (August 2012): Automated app launching, suspension and retries; automated tests in C# for address and breadcrumb bar in the desktop file explorer ### Webmaster @ Cornell University Society for the Humanities Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Ithaca, NY Update the web content monthly for the Society for the Humanities and School of Criticism and Theory websites ### Software Development in Test intern @ Microsoft Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 I wrote a flashcards learning application on the emerging WinRT platform. My app was selected to ship with the //build preview of Windows 8. ### Externship @ Innoveer Solutions Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 ### Materials Science Research Intern @ Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Air Force Research Laboratory Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | Fairborn, OH 1. Assisted in the research of creep limitations of Yttrium Alumina Garnet in high temperature steam 2. Assisted in the sizing of single crystal and polycrystalline YAG for rocket motor catalysts 3. assisted in coating oxide ceramic fiber cloths in monazite, increasing the durability of ceramic matrix composites ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science Cornell University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/melinda-lim-8baaa93a --- Source: https://flows.cv/melindalim JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/melindalim/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29