Jamy Timmermans
Staff Software Engineer at Uber
Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJamy Timmermans is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience, currently focused on Developer Experience and IDE integrations at Uber. He has a strong background in backend and build-system engineering from roles at Microsoft and earlier startups, routinely improving developer workflows and automation. Jamy contributes to open-source tooling such as Bazel's Go rules, where he implemented label-based repository support and managed releases and documentation—evidence of his attention to reproducible builds and developer ergonomics. Comfortable across languages and platforms, he combines systems-level thinking with practical release management and CI/CD improvements. Based in Washington, he brings both large-company scale experience and hands-on startup grit to reduce friction for engineering teams.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Industriële Wetenschappen Mechanical Engineering, Industriële Wetenschappen Mechanical Engineering at Don Bosco Haacht TSOComputer Science, Computer Science at Hasselt UniversityIndustriële Wetenschappen, Industriële Wetenschappen at VTI Aalst
English, Dutch, French
Github Skills (6)
golang10
go10
bazel10
dependency-management9
release-management9
cicd8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
bazel-contrib/rules_go
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Go rules for Bazel
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:27 reviews, 14 commits, 23 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Jamy contributed significantly to the Bazel rules for Go project. Their work included implementing support for Label-based repositories within the tools used for dependency upgrades, indicating a focus on build system improvements. They also released a new version and updated the README, demonstrating a role in managing project releases and documentation. Furthermore, they addressed build-related configurations, like cleaning up Gazelle ignores, enhancing the development workflow.
golangbazelstarlarkrulescgo
XereoNet/uniparse
Dec 2014 - Aug 2016
Contributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 7 months
apiconfigsparsingconfigunified-api
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