Emmy Lim

Full-stack Engineer with a focus on UI development and UX design.

Specializes in building or modernizing functional user interfaces backed by semantic markup and best practices.

Loves learning new languages and frameworks; Confident in leveraging existing knowledge of languages and paradigms (SPA, MVC, OOP etc) to pick them up quickly.

Enjoys exchanging ideas with coworkers and is very comfortable diving and developing deeper into the stack.

Contact me:

+1-651-280-7848

emmyrlim@gmail.com

linkedin.com/in/emmyrlim

github.com/emmyrlim

codepen.io/emmyrlim

Discord

Full Stack Developer

01/2018 to Present

Primarily Worked on the team responsible for features that drive revenue generation. Some features include the Discord store, library, games browse and search, light theme redesign, activity feed and server boosting.

Discord developers follow 'fail quickly' and '80/20' principles in order to meet our aggressive timelines.

Skills utilized:

  • HTML/CSS-modules
  • Javascript/React/Flux/Flow
  • React Native
  • lodash
  • Python
  • Flash
  • Git
  • Postgres

Clearslide

Full Stack Developer

06/2017 to 011/2017

Full Stack engineer and Front End expert mainly responsible for development of new Content search, manage and browse experiences that are rich, responsive, scalable.

Point person for design systems and cross-browser solutions.

Responsible for developing and trailblazing a well componentized, easily-maintainable and brand consistent front end code base.

Skills utilized:

  • HTML/Sass
  • Javascript/React/Redux
  • Underscore
  • Java
  • Backbone
  • Git
  • JQuery
  • Angular

Deem

Senior Software Engineer

07/2013 to 06/2017

Primary Front End engineer in multiple projects responsible for building newer and more modern experiences for Deem’s core travel product on the Grails Travel platform and the Deem mobile framework.

Primary Engineer for the Grails Travel data-modeling Services and Controller API layer.

Responsible for designing and developing an accessible, scalable, gracefully degrading and future-friendly front-end user experience, while delivering on an often short development timeline.

Skills utilized:

  • HTML/Stylus
  • Javascript/YUI
  • Groovy/Grails
  • Handlebars
  • Backbone
  • Perforce
  • Java
  • JQuery

Associated Colleges of the Midwest

Research Assistant

06/2010 to 12/2011

Primary Front End engineer that designed and created interactive data visualizations, utilizing the Javascript Infovis Toolkit, RaphaelJS and Jquery UI, as well as associated services and controllers.

Engineer in a team of 8 that created an experimental analytics platform to test the effects of data-representation methods and recommendation algorithms on cyber-balkanization.

Skills utilized:

  • HTML
  • Javascript/JQuery
  • Groovy/Grails
  • Java
  • mongoDB
  • Python
Macalester College
BA in Computer Science and Japanese
GPA 3.98/4.0
Deans List 4 years running
Phi Beta Kappa (ΦΒΚ) Honor Society
Summa Cum Laude
An Event Apart + A Day Apart 2014
An Event Apart + A Day Apart 2016
An Event Apart + A Day Apart 2017
DeveloperWeek 2017
Co-author, Macademia:
Semantic visualization of research interests
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1943497
English (native), Mandarin (native), Japanese