Full stack software engineer in Penang, Malaysia.
Full stack since 2017. Web and mobile apps, the services behind them, and the pipelines that ship them.
Walk in. My work hangs in the cabin, the grove holds a live Qimen chart for this hour, and a signpost at the end of the path shows where to find me.
React and TypeScript apps with sign-in, payments and realtime data, built for clients since 2017 and for my studio Cyants, whose own products include JRNY. Plenty of it on chain, with wallet flows and dApps across Cosmos, Terra, Ethereum, Aptos, Base and Solana.
React Native or Flutter when one codebase should cover both app stores, Swift when it has to feel exactly like iOS. I started out as an iOS developer, and since then I have shipped Harvest in Flutter and NextRare and Pave in React Native.
The services behind the apps. APIs in Node.js, NestJS and Next.js, Postgres with Drizzle, Convex and Cloudflare Workers, and serverless on AWS and Azure. I built the backend APIs for NextRare's rewards and pack odds, and the API services behind TBSx3.
CI/CD that tests and deploys on every push, Docker, and releases to AWS, Azure, Firebase and Cloudflare. Plus a hard second look at your code before it meets the internet. I studied digital system security and hold the CPEH ethical hacking certification.
Work
In old landscape paintings there's always a hut, and in the hut there's always a scholar at a desk. This one writes software.
I've been building full stack since 2017. Web and mobile apps, the APIs and services behind them, and the pipelines that deploy them. Close to seven years of it went into blockchain products at Kysen, and in 2018 I started my own studio, Cyants, for client builds and products of our own.
Lately that's meant compliance tooling for tokenised gold at Tokenyze, the NextRare card app and its backend, and health apps with Miroma Project Factory. The scrolls hanging in here are the details. The terminal answers questions, so type help.
01 / 04
The agent dashboard for Tokenyze, which tokenises gold and other metals. Agents use it to handle compliance on gold trades.
02 / 04
Kysen runs Proof of Stake validators and builds products for other blockchain teams. I built the React frontend for Cosmos Outpost, an analytics site for the Cosmos ecosystem, and Harvest, a Flutter wallet on Terra that earned yield on stablecoin deposits and swapped between Terra stablecoins. I also worked on Mirror Wallet, a mobile wallet for trading tokenised US stocks on Mirror Protocol.
03 / 04
An iOS and Android app for opening collectible card packs. I built features across the app, including pack reveals, missions, a loyalty points system, and crypto deposits and withdrawals on Base and Solana, plus the backend APIs for rewards and pack odds.
04 / 04
Seven web apps for Asterix, a hybrid token and NFT project on Ethereum, covering staking, vesting, a quest platform and NFT rerolls. Then Amaterasu, a hybrid NFT collection on Aptos, including its Move smart contracts.
cabin terminal. type 'help' to see what it knows.
cy@cabin:~$ whoami
CY Lim (Chee Yeong Lim)
Full stack software engineer in Penang, Malaysia. Shipping since 2017.
React and TypeScript by default. Blockchain frontends since 2019.
Runs Cyants, a small software studio.
Also practises fengshui and Qimen Dunjia.
cy@cabin:~$ contact
GitHub github.com/cylim
LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/cylim226
Telegram t.me/cyants
Résumé cy.my/resources/resume-en.pdf
Have something to build? Message me on Telegram, LinkedIn or X.
| Years | Where | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2026–now | Miroma Project Factory | Software EngineerStage 3 of Pave, the quit-vaping app, for Cancer Institute NSW |
| 2024–2026 | Tokenyze | Frontend EngineerAgent dashboard for compliant gold trading |
| 2022–2023 | Mercury Labs | Software EngineerTokenised wine and a supplier dashboard to tokenise anything |
| 2022–2023 | atticc | Software EngineerWeb3 social network on CyberConnect and XMTP |
| 2020–2022 | Miroma Project Factory | Software EngineerLiv, a support app for people living with dementia |
| 2019–2026 | Kysen Technologies | Software EngineerPoS validators, and products like Cosmos Outpost, Harvest and Mirror Wallet |
| 2019 | Docker Penang | SpeakerTalk on CI with Docker |
| 2018–now | Cyants | FounderMy studio. Client apps, NFT launches on Ethereum and Aptos, NextRare, and our own products like JRNY |
| 2017–2018 | JavaScript Malaysia | Penang meetup organiser, speakerTalks on SPAs, Socket.io, and React and Hooks |
| 2017–2018 | TBSx3 | Senior Software EngineerLed the Penang team |
| 2017 | Lava X Technologies | Full Stack DeveloperRemote. Led six-week client MVPs. |
| 2016 | University of Wollongong | BCompSc, Digital System Security |
| 2015 | Tableapp | iOS Developer (intern)Built a restaurant manager's app from scratch |
| 2014 | Mile2 | CPEHCertified Professional Ethical Hacker |
The Lantern
End of the path. If you have something to build, find me here.
