James Timmins
California, United States
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Top SchoolJames Timmins is a founder and software engineer with 11 years of experience building revenue-driving custom software and operational tooling, especially in Python/Django, React, Postgres, Airflow, and AWS. He has led core engineering work at Astronomer as an Airflow core committer and release manager, contributed reliability and multiprocessing fixes to the flagship Apache Airflow project, and designed production data offerings. James blends startup product pragmatism with deep platform engineering—shipping observability and ETL tooling at companies like Freenome and Dagster Labs and advising clients as a consultant. Now founding StrangeAnimals to build tools that help AI design real-world software, he combines business instincts from a USC business degree with hands-on systems and DevOps expertise to turn workflow problems into scalable systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Business Administration - Finance and Entrepreneurship, BS, Business Administration - Finance and Entrepreneurship at University of Southern California
Github Skills (14)
work-flow10
workflow-engine10
orchestration10
orchestra10
python10
data-engineering10
multi-process9
logging9
python-multiprocessing9
multiprocessing9
automations8
automation8
cil8
testing8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
apache/airflow
Jan 2019 - Sep 2022
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:190 reviews, 166 PRs, 69 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:James contributed to the Apache Airflow project by addressing typos and improving code readability in existing files. They also worked on integrating Connection objects from multiprocessing libraries, indicating an improvement to the library's internal functionality and architecture. Furthermore, the user's commits focused on fixing pickling issues related to process spawning and improving logging configurations, highlighting their involvement in enhancing the reliability and robustness of the Airflow system.
monitorpythonschedulerapacheprogrammatically
jhtimmins/ipinfo-django
Aug 2018 - Aug 2020
Django package for IPInfo wrapper library.
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
djangowrapper-librarypythonipinfo
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