Technology-agnostic and business-oriented software engineer developing solutions for real world problems.

Co-Founder / Director of Platform Engineering @ Cross-border e-commerce will never be the same! Flow is building a unique turnkey solution for online merchants to enable them to sell and fulfill cross-border after a single, simple API integration. From December 2015 to Present (1 month) Greater New York City AreaSoftware Engineer @ - Senior engineer for Blue Apron Wines, a new subscription business building on Blue Apron's current subscription model - Work with cross-functional business team and external partners to design the entire solution - Take part in supporting various business stakeholders including operations, customer service, and marketing and finance - Current technology stack is Ruby on Rails, Postgres, and Heroku From April 2015 to December 2015 (9 months) Greater New York City AreaLead Software Engineer, Global Customer Logistics @ - Led team to architect and develop next-generation carrier package tracking system, with a focus on simplicity of on-boarding new partners and improving reliability of package tracking data. - Services developed in Scala, Play, Apache Camel, AWS, and Postgres. From December 2014 to April 2015 (5 months) Lead Software Engineer, Gilt City Back Office Systems @ - Technical lead for Gilt City back office systems, leading and mentoring a team of 2 other software engineers and 1 QA - Work with non-technical stakeholders including the Gilt City VPs of operations and strategy/marketing to conceptualize, prioritize, and execute on long-term strategic initiatives - Led team to implement re-architecture of back office systems related to offer-creation and management, significantly cutting time to create and bring new offers to market From June 2014 to November 2014 (6 months) Senior Software Engineer @ - Part of the larger Gilt-wide backoffice technology department developing core infrastructure applications relating to sales and creative operations, merchandising, distribution, supply chain, inventory. - Development and implementation of micro-services dedicated to improving accuracy of purchasing and efficiency of sales setup, providing an estimated $1.5 million of savings annually. - Infrastructure and API design and development for transport and messaging platform used to communicate between Gilt internal systems and various external partners. - Communication feed development for the Brooklyn warehouse management system integration. This includes working with sales operations and distribution on improving business processes, developing new services to facilitate request creation, and conducting integration and user-acceptance testing. - Worked on new company revenue stream to integrate with other e-commerce sites' systems and fulfillment operations to enable Gilt to fulfill orders of external clients. - Developed a framework and rule engine for creating new value added services and ship routing and consolidation. This allows us to cost-effectively launch targeted marketing campaigns to customers and save at least $3 million a year in shipping costs. - Most development done in Scala, Ruby/Rails, Java, PostgreSQL, MongoDB. From August 2010 to May 2014 (3 years 10 months) Software Engineer @ - Lead developer on a significant upgrade of the flagship Movable Type 4.3/4.31 system to include various performance, security, and user experience enhancements. - Worked directly with several small and medium client businesses to gather technical requirements, design appropriate solutions, and develop custom plugins on top of the Movable Type platform. - Majority of solutions made significant use of Perl, MySQL, and Apache to support the Movable Type platform. From October 2008 to August 2010 (1 year 11 months) Software Engineer @ - Worked with a globally-distributed team to develop a suite of web applications using the Java/Spring framework and DB2 that use statistics and data mining to diagnose problems and predict yield in electronic wafer manufacturing. - Designed and developed networked and multi-threaded application using C++, Perl and Java for pre-processing and remote compiling ASCII-based pattern files into binary tester pattern files in Test Data Supply system. From June 2006 to October 2008 (2 years 5 months) Summer Intern @ - Assisted in the design and development of the Network Device Integrity Web Portal, which is used to summarize and trend errors from various AOL Operations network assets, using Perl, Catalyst, the Template Toolkit, JavaScript, and Sybase. From May 2005 to August 2005 (4 months)

MS, Computer Science @ University at Buffalo From 2004 to 2006 BS, Management Information Systems @ Ateneo de Manila University From 1999 to 2003 Paolo Lim is skilled in: Software Development, Java, Web Applications, Apache, PostgreSQL, Scala, Distributed Systems, E-commerce, Integration, Ruby on Rails, Start-ups