Tim Austin
Senior Software Engineer at Jobber
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Top SchoolTim Austin is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience who builds reliable full-stack systems across PHP, Elixir, React, MySQL, and GraphQL to solve real-world product problems in fast-moving environments. He spent five years at 7shifts delivering foundational labor, compliance, and real-time messaging features that cut bug turnaround from days to hours and migrated a million-monthly-user messaging flow to WebSockets. An Elixir enthusiast and active Exercism contributor, Tim has authored numerous concept exercises and helped improve the Exercism website UX with React/TypeScript work, demonstrating both teaching-minded craftsmanship and production-grade backend skills. His background as a critical-care nurse turned software developer gives him a calm, user-focused approach to high-stakes systems and a knack for automating manual workflows to save developer time. Now at Jobber, he continues to blend deep technical fluency with pragmatic product impact.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Studies in Critical Care Nursing Certificate, Critical Care Nursing, Advanced Studies in Critical Care Nursing Certificate, Critical Care Nursing at Mount Royal UniversityBachelor of Science Nursing (B.Sc.N), Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse, with Distinction, Bachelor of Science Nursing (B.Sc.N), Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse, with Distinction at University of Saskatchewan
English
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Github Skills (42)
unit-testing10
javascript10
develop10
list-comprehension10
elixir10
typescript10
exunit10
regular-expression10
typescript-types10
functional-programming10
typescripts10
test-unit10
react10
tuples9
tuple9
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
exercism/elixir
Apr 2019 - Apr 2021
Exercism exercises in Elixir.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:310 reviews, 60 commits, 85 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Tim made significant contributions to the Exercism Elixir track, focusing on improving and maintaining existing exercises. This involved fixing test cases, updating exercise specifications, and refactoring code to align with the project's goals. They also introduced new concept exercises, notably for booleans, lists, maps, and other core Elixir concepts, as well as working on more practice oriented exercises such as a Poker hand evaluator. The user's work included code changes, test updates, and the addition of supporting files, reflecting a broad involvement in the project's development.
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exercism/v3
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
The work-in-progress project for developing v3 tracks
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:149 reviews, 48 commits, 125 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to the development of Elixir-based concept exercises within the `exercism/v3` repository. Their work involved creating new concept exercises such as "booleans," "basics," "conditionals," "lists," "maps," "anonymous-functions," "tuples," "multiple-clause-functions," "matching-binary," "access," "bitstrings," "structs," "errors," "exceptions," "try-rescue-else-after", "list-comprehensions," and "regular-expressions". These exercises focused on teaching Elixir programming concepts. They also improved existing exercises and integrated JSON validation for quality assurance.
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