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Lim Chun Jie — Curriculum Vitae

Technical Lead | Technical Architect

Profile

Technical Lead and Technical Architect with nearly 8 years of experience building secure, scalable, and resilient digital platforms across e-commerce and agriculture. Owns solution design for multi-country loyalty platforms serving 50,000+ growers, from engaging business stakeholders and evaluating solution options and guiding delivery teams on architecture, integrations, and non-functional requirements.

Experienced in architecture governance, including Protection Requirement Assessments (PRA), compliance checks, and architecture reviews, and in aligning business, security, platform, data, and vendor teams on shared technical approaches. Pairs cost-conscious Azure Well-Architected design, which cut annual infrastructure costs by 68%, with hands-on DevSecOps and observability depth, backed by AWS Solutions Architect – Associate and AZ-305 certifications.

Professional experience

  • BASF

    Sep-2024 — Present

    Technical Lead | Technical Architect

    • Reduced annual Azure infrastructure costs by 68% by applying Azure Well-Architected Framework cost-optimisation principles: right-sizing compute and database tiers, consolidating environments and hosting plans, and decommissioning idle resources.
    • Owned integration designs covering SSO, SCIM user provisioning, OneTrust consent management, Pine Labs rewards, and third-party vendor APIs, keeping the Solution Design Document (SDD), Authorization Concept, and architecture diagrams current before every go-live.
    • Prepared architecture artefacts for Protection Requirement Assessments (PRA), compliance checks, and architecture reviews, addressing governance feedback and tracking follow-up actions to closure.
    • Led technical design reviews for a team of 5 developers, introducing design-review and non-functional requirement checklists for security, availability, scalability, and performance, aligned with enterprise standards and OWASP guidelines.
    • Coordinated architecture decisions and cross-team dependencies across business, security, cloud platform, and vendor teams and the solution architect, aligning them on common technical approaches.
    • Planned and prioritised the maintenance and technical-debt backlog by business impact, risk, and compliance needs, driving technical stack upgrades off end-of-life versions and closing critical vulnerability and compliance findings.
    • Established observability and quality governance by rolling out New Relic across 3 projects and standardised QA quality gates, improving MTTR by 60%, sustaining a 99.93% SLA, and cutting production outages from 8 to 1 within a year.
  • Maxis Broadband Sdn Bhd

    Jul-2021 — Sep-2024

    Senior Web Portal Developer

    • Led end-to-end e-commerce solution design and development, receiving the MaxisWay Award for outstanding delivery and innovation.
    • Archived 86% cost reduction in Google Maps services, reducing monthly expenses from RM20,000 to RM2,800 with architectural optimization.
    • Increased development efficiency using modular development with feature toggles, accelerating delivery timelines and improving feature control.
    • Design and implement CI/CD automation, streamlining application deployment processes.
    • Managed and support web and TNG mini-program platform, including high traffic iPhone pre-order queue system, ensuring scalability and reliability.
  • Inno Qode Sdn Bhd

    Sep-2020 — Jul-2021

    Web Developer

    • Developed MLM software and a content-sharing platform using Vue.js and RESTful APIs.
    • Implemented Server-Side Rendering to improve performance and SEO.
    • Built data visualizations including MLM member trees with D3.js and performance dashboards using Google Charts.
    • Implement unit testing with Jest testing framework.
  • Elken Sdn Bhd

    Apr-2019 — Aug-2020

    JavaScript Developer

    • Used Vue.js Framework and Bootstrap and JavaScript to create effective E-commerce platform, member dashboard and dynamic content page.
    • Collaborated with Business Analysis team in requirement assessment and system planning.
    • Assists in system maintenance and troubleshooting issues.
    • Designed reusable UI components that able to adapt with business requirement changes and could be used on other projects.

Certification

Skills

Architecture

  • Solution Design
  • Architecture Governance
  • Resilient Microservice
  • SOLID Principles
  • Object-Oriented Programming
  • Test Driven Development

Programming Language

  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • Golang
  • TypeScript

Backend Development

  • Spring Boot
  • Node.js
  • Flask
  • Gin
  • REST API

Cloud Architecture

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Serverless
  • Cloud Cost Optimisation

Frontend Development

  • React
  • Vue
  • Angular
  • Ionic
  • HTML5
  • Bootstrap
  • Tailwind CSS

Database

  • MS/Azure SQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • MySQL
  • JPA/Hibernate
  • ORM

DevOps

  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
  • Teamcity
  • JUnit
  • Jest
  • WSL
  • Various Source Code Management tools

Observability

  • New Relic
  • Google Analytics
  • Piano Analytics

Security & Identity

  • OAuth 2.0
  • JWT
  • SSO
  • SCIM

Others

  • Technical Debt Management
  • Requirement engineering
  • Incident Management
  • QA Governance

un-group-keyword

  • git
  • github
  • gitlab
  • bitbucket
  • Azure DevOps
  • NPM
  • Maven
  • Webpack
  • Vite
  • NumPy
  • Pandas
  • Responsive design
  • Scrum
  • Socket-io

Education

  • Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation

    2016 — 2019

    Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering

    • Dual degree program with Asia Pacific University and Staffordshire University
    • Manage Google developer and business day event 2016
    • APU Technical Assistants Trainee

Recent activities

  • Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions Training2025
  • BASF SPOT Award2025
  • BASF Cyber heroes Asia Pacific Champion2025
  • Solana Renaissance Global Online Hackathon2024

Language

  • English
  • Malay
  • Mandarin