Tim Bray
Principal at Textuality Services, Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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RockstarTim Bray is a veteran web technologist and entrepreneur with over three decades of experience building and advising web, serverless, and developer-facing systems. As Principal of Textuality Services and a former Senior Principal Engineer and distinguished leader at Amazon and Google, he has shipped large-scale messaging and serverless features and led web platform strategy at Sun Microsystems. He blends hands-on engineering with product and privacy work—having spent time on crypto/privacy projects like OpenKeychain—and now focuses on consulting and writing from Vancouver. A lifelong photographer and environmentalist, he brings a storyteller’s sensibility to technical communication and public speaking. Semi-retired by choice, he remains an outspoken generalist who mentors teams, contributes to open-source culture, and prefers practical, elegant solutions over faddish tech.
14 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
french (weak)
Stackoverflow
1,663reputation
170kreached
69answers
4questions
google-oauth
top-1%
google-api
top-5%
Github Skills (117)
programming-language10
burp10
http10
ruby10
c9910
specification10
serverless10
combinations10
ietf10
test-coverage10
jsonpath10
activitypub10
mastodon10
xml-parsing10
golang10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
timbray/topfew
May 2020 - May 2021
Finds the field values (or combinations of values) which appear most often in a stream of records.
Contributions:11 reviews, 18 commits, 28 PRs in 1 year
web-application-securityrecordscombinationssherlockstream
timbray/quamina
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Home of Quamina, a fast pattern-matching library in Go
Contributions:280 reviews, 185 commits, 316 PRs in 1 year
gopattern-matchingevent-drivengolangjson
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