Boyd Timothy
Senior Software Engineer at Musipal
American Fork, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBoyd Timothy is a seasoned software consultant and founder with 19 years of experience building production iOS apps, embedded firmware, and the cloud systems that connect them. He co-founded one of the original App Store companies in 2008 and has since shipped consumer and enterprise mobile products, led sync architecture for widely-deployed apps, and grown teams through acquisition. Comfortable from ESP32 firmware to SwiftUI and server-side APIs, Boyd designs pragmatic tradeoffs around battery, cost, and sync consistency for real-world products. He also contributes to open-source package management work, implementing a zypp backend for PackageKit, reflecting a willingness to tackle lower-level system integration. Now based in American Fork, Utah, he targets stable, mission-driven teams where long-term product quality matters.
20 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Brigham Young University
Finnish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
management10
git-repository10
repo-management10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
package-management10
repository-pattern10
dbus9
opensuse8
cocoa-touch6
cgrect6
subview6
uiview6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
PackageKit/PackageKit
Nov 2007 - Dec 2007
A D-Bus abstraction layer that allows the user to manage packages in a secure way using a cross-distro, cross-architecture API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 commits in 20 days
Contributions summary:Boyd's primary contribution revolves around implementing a new backend for the packagekit project, specifically focusing on integrating the zypp package manager. Initial commits established the foundation for the zypp backend, including core files and initial setup. Subsequent commits added functionality for retrieving repository lists, enabling repositories, and stubbing out other key functions. The user implemented and debugged core installation and removal of packages using zypp.
dbus
joulupukki/q-tune-web
Apr 2025 - Jul 2026
Contributions:164 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 3 months
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