# Tia Lim

> Software Engineer at Meta

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2020 – Present | Menlo Park, California, United States
- Working in video infrastructure that powers all of Meta's products (Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Oculus)

### Graphics Engineering Intern @ BioDigital
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | New York, New York
• Joined the AR/VR team that is working on shifting BioDigital’s rich anatomy visualizations to the mixed reality space
• Researched possible technologies that can be incorporated to make this shift, focusing on web technologies such as ThreeJS, WebVR and WebXR
• Developed a native BioDigital application for the HoloLens 2 in Unity, leveraging its new capabilities in articulated hand tracking to create an immersive and instinctual learning experience

### Full Stack Software Engineer Intern @ 1010data
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | New York, New York
• Hired as the sole intern in the software team for 1010Data’s product DSCVR, a solution that equips clients with big data capabilities through an intuitive platform, reducing technical barriers to entry for businesses
• Managed a product enhancement to DSCVR from inception to implementation, introducing an event-bus-centric architecture for a new publish-subscribe system in the server (Play) and client (Vue) using WebSockets
• Won 2nd place in the annual company-wide hackathon, with an entry that enhances the DSCVR user experience by streamlining the workflow of creating data buckets in the platform

### Computer Graphics Research Assistant @ Columbia Creative Machines Lab
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | New York, New York
• Created 3D ultrasound image visualizations in OpenGL, to use as proof-of-concept for 3D ultrasound image-reconstruction algorithms
• Preprocessed raw ultrasound data sent by a micro controller using Numpy and SciPy to separate and detect Tx/Rx peaks, and generated preliminary 2D images with the denoised data

### Front End Developer and Project Manager @ Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Lab
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area
• Developed iBegoo, a platform that allows artists to create interactive media leveraging virtual reality in Unity, through an intuitive and guided user interface
• Worked in all aspects of new-product development: outlined the NoSQL database schema for Unity assets in Firebase, designed the client-side architecture, planned the user experience, and executed all front-end features in Vue.js
• Managed a team of eight in aspects such as task tracking, workload management, twice-weekly mentorship sessions, and project collaboration to meet stringent deadlines

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Boston College
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Chestnut Hill, MA
Conducted an independent study of the Wavelet Transform to research its applications in signal processing

Introduced and explored using the Wavelet Transform as an audio fingerprinting tool for apps such as Shazaam, by using statistical program R to experiment with audio data and consolidating findings in a research paper

### Mathematics Tutor @ Boston College
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Chestnut Hill, MA
Mentored and tutored a group of 44 incoming freshmen for a transitional program catering to high-need students, during its 2.5-hour nightly tutoring sessions in both 1-on-1 and small group settings
Monitored students’ progress by actively communicating with teachers to identify weaker students and pinpoint the mathematical concepts students struggle with

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Boston College
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Chestnut Hill, MA
Managed a laboratory Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) through its complete lifecycle, handling design, logistics, procurement and execution.

Achieved vast cost efficiencies and improved research capabilities through the assembly of a complex MBE structure, requiring immense attention to detail and technical proficiency

### Barista @ Starbucks Coffee Singapore
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Singapore

### Intern (Economics) @ Ministry of Trade and Industry (Singapore)
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Singapore
Formulated, designed and executed a data driven approach to identify trends and outlying clusters to generate policy recommendations

Collected and investigated consolidated data sets across various demographic, economic level and time variant strata within the real estate market

Distilled insights using statistical packages such as Stata to advise on explanatory variables within a regression framework to accurately extrapolate real estate values

Studied the extent to which factors such as proximity to schools, transportation hubs and urban areas affect the variance within housing clusters


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
Columbia University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Mathematics
Boston College
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tia-lim
- Website: https://www.tialim.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-22