Jim Tilander
Sr. Software Engineering Manager at Apple
Manhattan Beach, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJim Tilander is a senior software engineering manager with 12+ years of experience leading technical teams across game consoles to cloud-scale at companies including Apple, Activision, Sony, and LucasArts. A generalist programmer who began on the Commodore 64 and evolved through PS2/3/4 development into modern webscale systems, he combines deep technical craftsmanship with product-minded leadership. He has hands-on expertise in C++ architecture and modular UI libraries, contributing significant core refactors to the widely used Dear ImGui project to improve modularity and memory handling. Based in Manhattan Beach, he enjoys deep work and long-term investments in maintainable systems, often focusing on internal tooling and shared infrastructure that quietly accelerate engineering velocity.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MSc., MSc. at Chalmers University of Technology
Swedish, English
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (10)
c-language10
windows-gui10
imgui10
cprogramming-language10
api9
application-framework9
app-framework9
web-framework9
tooling8
multiplatform8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ocornut/imgui
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies
Role in this project:
Software Architect / C++ Developer
Software Architect / C++ DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Jim primarily focused on refactoring and improving the core architecture of the Dear ImGui library. Their work included removing dependencies on memory allocation functions and realloc functionality, along with enabling the sharing of internal states between modules. Furthermore, the user implemented changes to the ImGui library to improve modularity and maintainability. These contributions were instrumental in enhancing the library's flexibility and efficiency.
cppgraphical-user-interfaceimguiguigamedev
jtilander/docker-webdav
Jan 2018 - Jul 2018
Docker container for spinning up a simple webdav server under nginx
Contributions:1 release, 31 commits, 1 PR in 5 months
docker-containernginxwebdav
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.