Kiefer Lam
Senior Software Developer at Tyler Capital
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKiefer Lam is a Senior Software Developer based in London with 11 years of professional experience and a First Class Computer Science degree from the University of East Anglia. He has progressed through hands-on roles at RT Software into his current senior post at Tyler Capital, consistently focusing on backend reliability and data integrity. His open-source work on the popular Schmavery/facebook-chat-api highlights a knack for practical improvements—cleaning and standardizing ID formats and adding error checking to harden data flows. Kiefer blends strong academic foundations with real-world product delivery, from internships and tutoring to leading production development. He is particularly skilled at making legacy or loosely structured data sources more predictable and robust, a quieter strength that reduces outages and debugging time. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who prioritizes correctness and maintainability at scale.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, First Class, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, First Class at University of East Anglia
Github Skills (12)
text-manipulation10
data-formats10
facebook-graph-api10
facebook-chat10
javascript10
nodejs10
facebook-chatbot10
api10
facebook-api10
data-format10
apidoc9
error-handling9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Schmavery/facebook-chat-api
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Unofficial Facebook Chat API for Nodejs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 7 PRs, 35 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Kiefer primarily focused on improving the internal functionality of the Facebook Chat API. Their contributions centered around data formatting and cleaning, particularly by removing redundant prefixes from IDs and ensuring consistency across various data structures. They added, refined, and updated formatting functions, significantly improving the reliability and correctness of the API's data handling processes. Furthermore, they implemented error checking to enhance robustness and prevent data processing failures.
nodejs
mangopearapples/DesktopMessenger
Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:1 release, 140 commits, 32 pushes in 5 months
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