# Terry Lim

> Senior Software Engineer at Indeed.com

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/terry

Senior Software Engineer with strong business acumen who loves challenge and continuous learning. Battle tested with a wide range of industry experiences from start-up to enterprise.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Indeed.com
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
• Lead modernization of job creation funnel
• Bulk Edits on hosted and indexed jobs on Indeed - employers.indeed.com/jobs
• Smart Sourcing - Integrate AI into sourcing & architect and implement price increase with new features
• Subscription Trial & Purchase Domain - resumes.indeed.com
Technologies used: Java, JDK 8, JDK 17, gRPC, Spring Boot, Gradle, React, Python, AWS, RestAPI, Envoy, JUnit, GraphQL, IQL, DynamoDB, dynamodb

### Team Lead - Senior Software Engineer (Order Management System) @ SSENSE
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
• Currently leading two high impact initiatives
• Short Shipping - Fulfilling partial order 
• Work cross functionally with the Warehouse and Inventory teams to revamp the integration on new generation stock reservation
• Delivering and monitoring item transfer capabilities through store, warehouse and photo studio.
• Tech Used: TypeScript, Node.js v14, React, Vue.js PHP7, Datadog, PagerDuty, LaunchDarkly,
REST API, Lambda, StepFunctions, S3, DynamoDB, MySQL, GitHub, LucidChart, BPMN, C4,
Agile, Jenkins, CI/CD, Redis, HTML, CSS, jQuery, JavaScript, K8s, Docker, Docker compose, Silex

### Team Lead - Software Development Engineer 3 (Order Management System) @ SSENSE
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
• Collaborated with solution architect to implement split order capabilities across new generation order creation system and the legacy system
• Successfully delivered modernization of post checkout procedure from the legacy system to an asynchronous serverless distributed service utilizing Saga pattern
• Acted as interim tech lead of the team and continuously lead scrum ceremonies such as daily stand up, story grooming, feature planning, sprint review, sprint planning and retrospective

### Software Development Engineer 3 (Order Management System) @ SSENSE
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
• With a talented team, modernized legacy order creation layer and delivered scalable serverless order creation system with embedded retry mechanism using Saga pattern utilizing various AWS services such as Lambda, Step Function, SQS and SNS.
• Maintained and improved fulfillment plan microservice adding priority location and enablement capabilities.

### Software Development Manager (hands on 7:3) @ Viva Naturals
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021
• Serve as executive in charge of information systems, data and technology reporting directly
to the CEO, managing a team of 4 software engineers, working cross functionally with
stakeholders such as product and marketing.
• Design, plan and implement internal distributed serverless systems to serve different
functions and to integrate systems together
• Work with external consultants to integrate ERP system
• Owned the design, implementation and execution of membership only deals site promoting
the company's product.
• Work directly with the CEO to design and develop suite of tools for different department of
the company can use to facilitate their operations such as keyword research tool, listing
optimization tool, lightning deals scheduler and more
• Play an Integral part of strategic direction regarding overall business, working together with
CEO, CFO and COO
• Successfully migrated the ecommerce website to Shopify with zero downtime.
• Principle part of business revenue growth of over 15%.

### Software Engineer @ Viva Naturals
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018
• Developed internal BI & research and ETL tools that help Business Analysts to optimize
product listing visibility on Amazon marketplace
• Reduced recurring annual AWS bill by 15% and increased reliability by utilizing cost explorer
and implementing disaster recovery.
• Found exploits on Amazon marketplace and built an automation tool to maximize the
potential of the exploit before it was patched.
• Gradually implemented Jenkins CI/CD into the development cycle
• Tech Used: Python, Flask, React, Less, jQuery, BeautifulSoup4, proxy, Google Data Studio,
Cloud Scheduler, AWS EC2, RDS, Lambda, Vue.js

### Software Developer & Team Lead @ AUCTO.COM
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Ontario, Canada
• Led cross functional team and developed e-commerce & live auction 4 tier web app that handled multiple $1M+ dollar live auctions. (Frontend, Live Platform, Application, Database)
• Delegated tasks efficiently to meet business deadlines using Jira. Pushed for code quality
over ‘getting things done’, by implementing code reviews, testing, CI/CD and coding styles.
• Tech Used: Node.js, Socket.io, WebSocket, PHP, CI/CD, Laravel, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Redis,
CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub

### Web Developer @ University of Toronto
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Ontario
• Successfully built and maintained 3 tier student locker rental system that students used to
reserve and pay for lockers using LAMP stack. Migrated self-hosted stack to AWS EC2 to cut
recurring cost and increase reliability.
• Tech Used: PHP, MySQL, Silex, HTML, CSS, jQuery, JavaScript


## Education
### Honours Bachelor of Science in BSc, Computer Science
University of Toronto
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014

### International Exchange Student Program
Korea University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/terrylimsoftware

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Last updated: 2026-03-22