Neil Freeman
Senior Account Project Manager at American Tower
Dennis, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeil Freeman is a Senior Account Project Manager with 14 years of operational and technical experience bridging live-event systems and software engineering. He transitioned from managing LED displays and creating stat layers for professional sports teams to leading rooftop telecom asset programs at American Tower, combining hands-on event operations with cross-functional stakeholder leadership. A General Assembly-trained full-stack developer, Neil contributes to open-source—enhancing tweepy’s media upload and streaming capabilities—bringing practical backend experience in Python alongside a stack that includes React, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, and MongoDB. He excels at translating client needs into reliable technical workflows and process improvements, whether on game day or in enterprise telecom portfolios. Based in Dennis, Massachusetts, he’s equally comfortable drafting XML for live stat graphics or refactoring media upload flows, which reflects a rare mix of operational grit and software craftsmanship.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at General AssemblyUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
English
Github Skills (9)
web-framework10
api10
python10
apidoc10
twitter-api10
testing9
git8
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
tweepy/tweepy
Nov 2015 - Sep 2020
Twitter for Python!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 14 commits, 9 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Neil primarily focused on enhancing the `tweepy` library's functionality, particularly around media uploads and streaming. Their contributions include refactoring the media upload flow, enabling chunked uploads for video, and implementing video upload support within the combined `media_upload` method. They also addressed error handling and performed minor code improvements, such as improving Python 3 compatibility and refactoring methods.
pythontwitter-apitwitter
fitnr/SublimeCSSTidy
Jul 2012 - Apr 2015
Contributions:85 commits, 1 push, 3 comments in 2 years 9 months
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