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My Journal

I am a AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification

23 December 2021

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner was issued by Amazon Web Services Training and Certification to Xing Zhi Lim.
Earners of this certification have a fundamental understanding of IT services and their uses in the AWS Cloud. They demonstrated cloud fluency and foundational AWS knowledge. Badge owners are able to identify essential AWS services necessary to set up AWS-focused projects.
Credly link for my AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification 

I am a certified Professional Scrum Master

29 Sept 2021

Professional Scrum Master™ I (PSM I) was issued by Scrum.org to Lim Xing Zhi.
Those who earn the globally recognized Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) certification have demonstrated a fundamental level of Scrum mastery, including the concepts of applying Scrum, and proven an understanding of Scrum as described in the Scrum Guide. This individual has also demonstrated a con…
Credly link for my PSM 1 by Scrum.org

My first NPM Package

27th November 2020

I published my first NPM package! It is a create-react-app template with a pre-configured app skeleton and a handful of quality-of-life libraries pre-configured like Redux toolkit, TypeScript, Ant Design and thus LESS, routing, etc.

Try it with create-react-app my-app --template cra-template-xz.

cra-template-xz
*This project was bootstrapped with [Create React App](https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app).*
My first NPM package

First Open source contribution

2nd August 2020

I was browsing some design documentation from ant.design before I noticed some of their documentation were not translated from Chinese. And that is the story of how I made my first PR to an open source project. The translations were merged on August 2nd.

chore: added english translations for illustrations by limxingzhi · Pull Request #25948 · ant-design/ant-design
[中文版模板 / Chinese template]🤔 This is a ... New feature Bug fix Site / documentation update Demo update Component style update TypeScript definition update Bundle size optimization Performa...
My first PR to an opensource project

Ending my internship at Staizen

31 July 2020

Yesterday was my last day at Staizen. As a front end engineer for almost 3 months, working on StencilJS based design system and other front end projects, I felt that I've grown a lot as a software engineer and colleague. Check out my blog post below.

How did I spend my summer break? - Internship at Staizen
This is my first summer break as a computer science student. At the start of my bachelor’s journey, I planned to have an internship that is not coordinated by the school every summer. This is my first internship experience after starting university.
Blog post about Internship at Staizen
Staizen posted on LinkedIn
This week, we bid "see you again" to Xing Zhi Lim! Over the last 3 months, we had the privilege to have him as a Front-end Engineering intern at Staizen...
Farewell post on LinkedIn from Staizen