👋 Welcome!
My name is Tim. I'm a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI applications, Python, Node.js / Express.js, TypeScript / JavaScript, React.js, Ruby on Rails, and MongoDB / MySQL / PostgreSQL databases, with cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Services.
I've implemented cost-saving self-service solutions for FAANG and fast-paced startups, and I'm skillful across all stages of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC / AI-SDLC) and scrum/agile methodologies.
I'm a proactive communicator and strong team-player who continually expands my technical expertise. I care deeply about my users, polished digital experiences and bringing strong value to my team.
🗣 About Me
My background is in software engineering 🧑💻 and environmental science 🌱. I enjoy learning about complex systems and their connections. I believe our well-being depends on a healthy relationship with both technology and ecology -- working together -- for us and for the planet 🌎. I wish to be a part of meaningful projects with honest goals. In my free time, I like to explore my backyard in Washington, learn about new things, or be aimlessly creative.
⚒️ Skills
- Agile/Scrum Methodology
- AI-SDLC
- Asana
- AWS
- AWS EC2
- Babel
- Bootstrap
- Chakra UI
- Circle CI
- CodeIgniter
- Confluence
- CSS3
- CursorAI
- DeepSeek
- Django
- Docker
- Express.js
- Firebase
- Firestore
- Flask
- GCP (Google Cloud)
- Gemini
- Git
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Google Cloud Services
- GraphQL
- Hacklang
- HTML5
- Iterative Delivery
- JavaScript
- Jest
- JIRA
- LangChain
- Load Balancers
- Material UI
- Mercurial
- Microsoft Teams
- MongoDB
- MVC Architecture
- MySQL
- Nest.js
- Next.js
- Node.js
- OpenAI
- PHP
- Pixel-Perfect Components
- PostgreSQL
- Python
- React Testing Library
- React.js
- Redis
- Redux
- Relay
- RSpec
- Ruby
- Ruby on Rails
- Ruby Version Manager
- Sass/Less/Scss
- ShapeUp Method (preferred)
- Sidekiq
- Slack
- Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Storybook
- Structured Output
- Styled-components
- Tailwind CSS
- Technical Documentation
- Terraform
- Test Driven Development
- TypeScript
- VertexAI
- Vite
- Vue.js
- Vuex
- Webpack
👨🎨 Projects
SquirrelStudio
A desktop studio for building generative music and visuals together, in sync. A piece is a single “Scene” — one validated document describing the audio (tempo, key, layered synths, effects) and the picture (pattern family, palette, motion). Both halves share one clock and the visuals run off a live frequency analysis of the audio actually playing, so the picture breathes with the sound. Built with Electron and React, with Three.js (react-three-fiber) driving the visuals, Tone.js for synthesis. Behind it sits a NestJS API, and the Scene document itself is a Zod schema shared across the TypeScript monorepo, so the desktop app and the API agree on it by construction. In private development.
Frog Garden
A calm, Zen-influenced to-do app that turns getting things done into tending a small garden. Swallow your frog — the one task you most dread — before the rest of the list unlocks, then watch a bonsai grow through the day as frog friends gather at its base. Progress is rewarded organically rather than with scoreboards or streaks, alongside a focus timer, a raked-sand canvas to fidget with, and an end-of-day reflection. Everything stays on your device — no account, no backend, no tracking. Built with Next.js, React, and TypeScript, with Material UI re-themed into a muted, nature-inspired palette and Framer Motion for restrained, organic movement.
View on GitHub
RoamGuru
RoamGuru is a travel planning and adventure management platform designed to help travelers stay organized before, during, and after their journeys. Create trips, manage packing and task lists, track readiness, build itineraries, review weather conditions, and capture travel insights in one place. The mobile app is built with React Native (Expo), while the backend is powered by NestJS, Firebase Authentication, and Firestore.
GearList
Gear management tool to help increase trip safety by allowing one to better prepare for adventures. Create gear lists, create gear items, add items to lists or lists to items. See gross list weights, and real-time pack weight. This tool uses VueJS and MuseUI for the front-end, and the backend is powered by Node/Express/Mongo.
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HikingTool
Hiking risk management tool to help increase trip safety, awareness and preparation. Allows creation of hikes along with estimated travel times, which was adopted into an algorithm from a backpacking book. Includes creation/edit and deltion of pre and post-trip experience reports. Powered by AngularJS on the front-end, and Node/Express/Mongo on the back-end. Developed concept, wireframes and built and deployed application.
View on GitHub
Fitness Tracker
Fitness tracking tool allowing user to record workouts and repeitions. Powered by Python 3 using Django with Bootstrap 4.
View on GitHub
Sock It!
Lightweight chat application, powered by Socket.io and ExpressJS. Allows real-time chatting with timestamp conversion for user timezones.
View on GitHub🚀 Recently Shipped
liveCommits, merges, and releases — straight from my public GitHub activity.
- personal_site_v3merged PR #99Recently Shipped: six cards in even responsive rows
- personal_site_v34 pushes to mainRecently Shipped: six cards in even responsive rows (#99)
- personal_site_v3merged PR #95chore(deps): Next 16 + React 19 — clears all remaining advisories
- personal_site_v3pushed to mainchore(deps): Next 16 + React 19 — clears all remaining advisories (#95)
- zen-frog-todomerged PR #45Fix mobile rich editor toolbar (selection bubble)
- zen-frog-todo3 pushes to mainFix mobile rich editor toolbar (selection bubble) (#45)
🏋️♂️ experience
📚 Senior Software Engineer
2024-Present - Major Education Provider, Seattle, WA
🚴♂️ Senior Software Engineer
2023-2024 - Ridepanda, Seattle, WA
🏥 Software Engineer
2022-2023 - Sana Benefits, Seattle, WA
🧑💻 Software Engineer
2019-2022 - Perficient, Inc., Seattle, WA
🌲 Software Engineer
2016-2019 - Sasquat.ch, Bothell, WA
👨⚕️ Web Developer
2015-2016 - Sesame Communication, Seattle, WA
⚛️ Web Developer
2011-2015 - SmartGuys Design, Seattle, WA
💠 I've been building websites since our family's Gateway 2000 P5-133 's Telepath 28.8K modem was connected to the web. I love expressing creativity through digital experiences, and believe that being a developer is a life-long learning journey full of challenges and growth.
🎓 Education History
Full Stack Web Application Development: Software Engineering
Coding Dojo
Full stack web development, from wireframes to deployment at the Coding Dojo.
Bachelors of Science: Environmental Science
The University of Iowa
Student involvement and study of natural sciences at The University of Iowa.
⭐️ Awards
Received the Fearless Trailblazer award from a Major Educational Company in 2025.
Student recycling work lead to University of Iowa receiving $60,000 DNR grant and Iowa Recycling Association Best Practices Award.
Awarded student conservation Parker Gentry Award and $700 scholarship for my performance and group leadership during field work.
📚 Reading
Currently Reading2
“Clean Craftsmanship: Disciplines, Standards, and Ethics”
“Navigation, Sea State and Weather: A Paddler's Manual (Freedom of the Seas, Volume 1)”
2026 Completed3
“Maxalding”
“The Beachcomber's Guide to Seashore Life in the Pacific Northwest”
“Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism”
2025 Completed13
“Vibe Coding”
“Starting A Startup”
“The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers”
“Chakras Beyond Beginners: Awakening to the Divine Within”
“Hands-On Guide to Google ADK”
“Soul DNA”
“Qigong for Beginners: Chinese Healing Energy from Within”
“Taoism: Essential Teaching of The Way and Its Power”
“Native Wisdom: Seven Keys to Health & Happiness”
“The Mountain Is You”
“Qigong Healing Meditations: Taoist Healing Exercises with Ken Cohen”
“The Wisdom of Mike Mentzer: The Art, Science and Philosophy of a Bodybuilding Legend”
“Emotional Intelligence Habits”
2024 Completed13
“The Art of Thinking”
“Simple SQL”
“The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life, and Achieve Real Happiness”
“Extreme Ownership: How US Navy Seals Lead and Win”
“Speed Reading: Learn to Read a 200+ Page Book in 1 Hour”
“Designing Data-Intensive Applications”
“Understanding Distributed Systems: What every developer should know about large distributed applications”
“High-Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way”
“How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day”
“How to Develop Self-Confidence and Influence People by Public Speaking”
“Code That Fits in Your Head”
“Naming Things: The hardest problem in software engineering”
“Engineers' Survival Guide”
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