Tim Walker
Lead Web Engineer at Starbucks
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolTim Walker is a Lead Web Engineer with 13 years of experience building high-performance, cloud-native Progressive Web Applications, currently driving platform improvements at Starbucks in Seattle. He blends front-end craftsmanship—demonstrated by open-source contributions to projects like backgrid—with infrastructure expertise in IaC, CI/CD, and Webpack optimizations to improve performance, observability, and maintainability at scale. Tim has a track record of shipping customer-facing transactional features and pioneering new browser APIs from prototype to production. He also specializes in diagnosing complex, analysis-heavy issues such as memory leaks and establishing team best practices around automated testing and linting. With an unusually cross-disciplinary background that includes adult education, he brings a pragmatic focus on measurable business value and developer enablement.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Human Services, B.A., Human Services at Western Washington University
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
backbonejs10
backbone10
amd9
css9
frontend8
web-framework8
web-frontend8
iis6
asp-net6
visual-studio6
typescript6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cloudflarearchive/backgrid
May 2013 - Feb 2014
Finally, an easily stylable semantic HTML data grid widget with a Javascript API that doesn't suck.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the `backgrid` repository. Their commits involved implementing and refining UI components, specifically focusing on the "select-all" extension and header cell rendering. They optimized code, improved the styling of the grid, and ensured proper functionality through the modification of CSS and JavaScript files. Further, they added full AMD support to the project.
datagridjavascript-apisemantic-htmlstyleable
twalker/qmk_firmware
Jun 2021 - Feb 2026
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Contributions:673 pushes, 44 branches in 4 years 8 months
atmelavrfirmwareusb
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