Timothy Schonberger
Staff Software Engineer at Powered by People (PBP)
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTimothy Schonberger is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building mobile-first and backend systems across startups and large platforms, currently driving engineering at Powered by People in Canada. He has strong expertise in Android and iOS development, Kotlin, Java, and Ruby on Rails, and has led teams and projects at Faire, Shopify, Ritual, and SurfEasy. Timothy pairs pragmatic engineering with TDD and agile practices from his Pivotal Labs background, shipping production mobile clients used by millions and improving backend performance. An active contributor to the Robolectric Android testing framework, he focuses on test reliability and realistic Android behavior—an indicator of his attention to quality beyond feature delivery. Known for translating everyday problems into practical software solutions, he brings both hands-on implementation and technical leadership to cross-functional teams.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Honor's Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Honor's Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Lakehead University
English, French
Github Skills (9)
unit-testing10
javas10
textview10
robolectric10
android10
java10
test-automation10
mockito9
junit9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
robolectric/robolectric
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
Android Unit Testing Framework
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 9 comments in 11 days
Contributions summary:Timothy focused on improving the testing framework by addressing issues related to `SpannableStringBuilder` and `TextView` within the Android unit testing framework. They removed and replaced shadow implementations, corrected tests dependent on the removed implementations, and added new tests to cover edge cases. Further contributions include updating fragment controllers and addressing whitespace issues within resource handling. The user also updated tests to ensure their validity across years.
android-unit-testingandroidrobolectricjavaunit-testing
flyingtoaster0/flyingtoaster0.github.io
Aug 2016 - May 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 83 pushes, 11 branches in 3 years 9 months
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