Timothy Maxwell
Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic
California, United States
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Top SchoolTimothy Maxwell is a seasoned backend engineer with 15 years of experience building reliable, data-intensive systems and is currently a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic in California. He spent five years at Stripe honing payments and infrastructure expertise and earlier contributed to the core of the open-source RethinkDB database, focusing on backfill and replication bug fixes that touch fundamental data management logic. With a B.S. in Physics from Caltech, he brings a strong analytical mindset to distributed systems and performance-sensitive engineering. Colleagues describe him as someone who prefers digging into tricky concurrency and replication problems rather than surface-level features, and his history shows a mix of production-scale fintech and open-source database work.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics at California Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (11)
databases10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
back-end-development10
database10
concurrency9
data-structure9
performance-optimization9
distributed-systems9
data-structures9
data-storage8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rethinkdb/rethinkdb
Jun 2010 - Jul 2015
The open-source database for the realtime web.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3307 commits, 454 pushes, 82 branches in 5 years
Contributions summary:Timothy's commits primarily involve merging branches related to the backfill functionality in the RethinkDB database. These commits include resolving conflicts and modifying code related to backfilling, indicating contributions to the core data management and replication features. The changes involve code improvements in the `backfill.cc`, `store_receive_backfill.cc` files. Overall, they appear to have been focusing on improvements and bug fixes to the backfill system.
database
timmaxw/HitecDServo
Jul 2022 - Jul 2025
Arduino library to program and control Hitec D-Series servos. (Not endorsed by Hitec.)
Contributions:1 PR, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
arduino-library
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