Tim Ambler is a Staff Engineer with 13 years of experience building reliable, scalable full-stack web applications using TypeScript/JavaScript, React, Node, PostgreSQL, and AWS. He combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership—having led migrations to TypeScript, instituted stronger integration testing, and delivered performance improvements like a 100x faster device search for xIoT platforms. Tim has built end-to-end systems from cloud-based developer environments to workflow engines that manage hundreds of thousands of devices, and he values clean code and robust test suites. A published author on JavaScript frameworks, he also contributes to practical open-source tooling (e.g., enhancing the forever CLI) and has a knack for turning complex legacy logic into reusable service layers that improve team velocity. Based in Nashville, he prefers solving real-world scale and reliability challenges rather than chasing new frameworks.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Systems Administration, B.S. Computer Systems Administration at Southern Adventist University
A simple CLI tool for ensuring that a given script runs continuously (i.e. forever)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 7 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Tim primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the `forever` CLI tool. Their contributions include adding support for JSON configuration files, removing the use of lodash in favor of object-assign, and restructuring the codebase to handle JSON files in array format. The user also added test cases to ensure the tool functions correctly when using JSON configuration files and updated the testing environment to use port 80.
A Node.js-based SFTP server with an integrated REST API for querying users / files.
Contributions:35 commits, 29 pushes, 2 branches in 12 days
apisftp-serverintegratedqueryingnode-js
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