Tim Broddin
Founder at Titans of Industry
Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Broddin is a creative full-stack developer and founder from Antwerp with 12 years of experience building media-focused web apps and playful technical experiments. He combines hands-on expertise in Meteor, React/Redux, NodeJS and WordPress—including contributions to high-profile projects like Automattic’s Calypso and Jetpack—with an instinct for product-facing features such as subscriber analytics and editor tooling. As co-founder of Wannabes.be he blends engineering with a passion for music photography and event coverage, and now leads his own studio, Titans of Industry. Known for Raspberry Pi hacks and side projects, he prefers interesting, media-rich challenges over routine work and thrives at the intersection of creative coding and pragmatic backend engineering.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
none, IT, none, IT at Karel de Grote-HogeschoolSt AloisiusBachelor's Degree, Information management, Bachelor's Degree, Information management at Thomas More-hogeschool
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Github Skills (15)
wordpress10
rest-api10
php10
javascript10
react10
redux10
plugin10
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api8
nodejs8
apim8
api-design8
html6
css6
meteor6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/wp-calypso
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:337 reviews, 37 commits, 359 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Tim contributed to various aspects of the WordPress.com Calypso project. Their work included front-end modifications, such as removing a premium label and adding OpenGraph enabling. They also made back-end changes within the editing toolkit for coming soon pages, like setting a default share image. Furthermore, the user worked on email stats features, including data flow, UI, and all-time stats.
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Automattic/jetpack
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
Security, performance, marketing, and design tools — Jetpack is made by WordPress experts to make WP sites safer and faster, and help you grow your traffic.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:136 reviews, 36 commits, 184 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to the subscription feature of the Jetpack plugin, focusing on subscriber count calculations and API endpoints. They modified code related to fetching subscriber counts, splitting them into email subscribers and social followers, and updating the UI elements accordingly. Their work involved changes to PHP files within the modules and widgets, as well as the creation and modification of API routes and JavaScript files for the block editor. The contributions involved the use of WordPress's REST API, and implementing changes based on including/excluding subscribers from Publicize.
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