Tim Baumann
Senior Linux Engineer at Siemens
Duluth, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolTim Baumann is a Senior Linux Engineer with 16 years of embedded and systems experience, currently focusing on Linux at Siemens after leading embedded Linux development teams at Technicolor and Scientific Atlanta/Cisco. He brings deep hands-on expertise across firmware, kernel-adjacent systems, and device integration from a career that began in the late 1990s and is grounded in a BSEE from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Tim is also an active open-source contributor with notable work on collaborative editing (operational transformation) and front-end tooling—contributions to CodeMirror and ot.js highlight his interest in real-time collaboration and robust editor integrations. He blends systems-level rigor with an unusual cross-domain curiosity in type and category theory, which informs his approach to correctness and composability. Based in Duluth, Georgia, he pairs technical leadership with practical delivery across long-lived product cycles in consumer and enterprise environments.
15 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BSEE, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, BSEE, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Github Skills (12)
algorithm10
css10
markdown10
algorithms10
javascript10
markdown-it10
color-theory10
codemirror10
phantomjs9
testing9
wordpress-themes9
wp-theme9
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
Operational-Transformation/ot.js
Mar 2012 - Jul 2020
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:267 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 8 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Tim was responsible for implementing core features and functionality within the operational-transformation/ot.js repository. The commits demonstrate the implementation of the `apply`, `compose`, and `transform` functions, which are central to operational transformation algorithms. Additionally, the user added base revisioning and implemented testing and documentation to improve code quality. The user also started the integration of the library with CodeMirror, indicating work across a broader part of the project.
operational-transformation
brehaut/color-js
Jul 2010 - Aug 2010
A color management API for javascript
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Tim primarily focused on enhancing the color-js library's functionality and usability. They added support for HSL and percentage-based RGB color representations, expanding the library's color model capabilities. The user also implemented unit tests for the new features using the vows testing framework. Moreover, they improved the robustness of the library by validating CSS color strings and fixing existing conversion implementations.
apijavascriptcolor-managementapi-management
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