Tim Brooks
Principal Software Engineer at Elastic
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Brooks is a Principal Software Engineer in Denver with 12 years of experience building robust, high-performance distributed systems and backend services. At Elastic he has progressed from senior to principal roles working on Elasticsearch, contributing performance, thread-safety, reindexing and remote search improvements to one of the most widely used open-source search engines. He brings deep polyglot backend expertise—from Java and Netty optimizations to Clojure numerical libraries—demonstrated by contributions to Netty and core.matrix as well as production Clojure services at Staples SparX. Known for pragmatic engineering that emphasizes performance, reliability, and testability, he also mentors peers and participates in hiring. An unusual combination of political science and math academic training underpins his analytical approach to system design and debugging.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Parkview High SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science and Math, summa cum laude, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science and Math, summa cum laude at William Jewell College
Github Skills (34)
asynchronous10
ssl10
tls1210
matrix10
back-end-development10
clojure-cli10
async10
testing10
amazon-elasticsearch10
indexing10
tls1310
networking10
java10
clojure10
javas10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/elasticsearch
Dec 2016 - Jan 2023
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:351 reviews, 891 commits, 1434 PRs in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tim contributed to the Elasticsearch project by implementing features and fixing bugs related to the reindex process, including changes to the remote search and indexing, and improvements to compression and thread safety. They focused on optimizing the reindex process by modifying the API, implementing thread-safe operations, and introducing new features like support for the proxy connection mode. The user also worked on improving the logging and testing of the codebase, demonstrating a focus on performance and robustness.
restrestfulsearch-engineelasticsearchjava
netty/netty
Jun 2016 - Oct 2019
Netty project - an event-driven asynchronous network application framework
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 11 PRs, 57 comments in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Tim contributed to the Netty project by addressing deprecated method usages and optimizing code for better performance. Their work included removing outdated method calls and replacing them with recommended alternatives, enhancing the efficiency of scheduled task handling within event executors. Furthermore, the user implemented security enhancements by incorporating `doPrivileged` blocks for socket operations, aligning the project with security best practices. The user also made several changes to buffer allocation and ssl handler to enhance the performance of the project.
asynchronousevent-drivennetty
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