Shim Manning
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Raytheon
McKinney, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShim Manning is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building everything from low-level hardware interfaces and real-time embedded systems to multi-tier web applications and multi-threaded desktop software. Based in McKinney, Texas, he has led image processing, CI-driven device driver development, GPGPU/video processing, HLSL shader work, and control-loop networking across long-tenured roles at Raytheon. He also runs a consulting practice, Shimpossible, demonstrating an entrepreneurial streak and hands-on client work in systems, hosting, and ops. An active contributor to the GitHub Desktop UI, he focuses on pragmatic UX improvements that help developers “focus on what matters.” He pairs a 3.9 MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech with a history of shipping production-critical, performance-sensitive systems.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Science, 3.9, Master's Degree, Computer Science, 3.9 at Georgia Institute of TechnologyUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (13)
uid10
typescript10
user-interface10
typescripts10
github-desktop10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
electron10
graphical-user-interface10
react10
typescript-types10
javascript9
git5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
desktop/desktop
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Focus on what matters instead of fighting with Git.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 6 PRs, 33 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Shim primarily contributed to the user interface of the GitHub Desktop application. Their work involved modifying the application menu by adding a link to the user guide and then later updating to "user guides." Further modifications included adding an "open file" feature to the context menu in the changes sidebar and modifying the code to change the name of the menu item. They also focused on improving the application's UI, for example, changing the text for the "Open file" menu item to be more user-friendly and fixing typos.
fightingelectronmattersgithub-desktoptypescript
shimpossible/jelly
May 2015 - Sep 2020
Contributions:2 pushes in 5 years 5 months
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