Karim Timer
Backend Engineer (SE3) at Cleo
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKarim Timer is a Backend Engineer (SE3) based in Birmingham with eight years of experience building reliable web applications and services, currently contributing to Cleo after progressive engineering roles at carwow and BT. He brings deep Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL expertise, complemented by Elm on the front end and a pragmatic focus on TDD, CI, pair programming and cloud-backed development workflows. His background includes systems-level experience with OpenStack and Jenkins, plus hands-on proficiency with vim and git, which reflects a developer who values tooling and developer experience. Karim holds an MSc in Computer Science and a BSc in Mathematics, including an international exchange at Korea University, signaling strong analytical foundations and global exposure. Outside salaried roles he ran a tutoring business, demonstrating self-management, client-facing communication and curriculum design skills not obvious from his engineering titles.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Student Exchange, Mathematics, Student Exchange, Mathematics at Korea UniversityBsc Mathematics with an International year, Mathematics, Bsc Mathematics with an International year, Mathematics at University of Birmingham
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Github Skills (32)
unsafe9
migration8
analyzer7
linter7
ibm-watson6
firebase6
chatbot6
android-studio6
android6
command-prompt6
android-recyclerview6
firebase-realtime-database6
ruby6
java6
firebaseui6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
karimtimer/PhotoGroove
Mar 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:68 commits, 2 PRs, 37 pushes in 5 months
karimtimer/timer-chat
Sep 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:16 pushes, 3 branches, 20 issues in 1 year 10 months
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