Tim Brown
Principal Software Engineer, Clipchamp at Microsoft
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Brown is a Principal Software Engineer based in Brisbane with eight years of focused backend and systems experience and a longer history in C/C++ and Java across Google, Microsoft/Clipchamp and other firms. He drives reliability and maintainability—at Google he improved big-data pipelines to cut manual intervention from hours to minutes, and in open source he modernized qutebrowser’s codebase by converting type comments to annotations and cleaning typing imports. Comfortable in startup-like and large-scale engineering contexts, he repeatedly steps into complex, behind-the-scenes problems to ship robust solutions. Tim blends deep technical curiosity about pushing computing limits with hands-on implementation and architecture work, and brings a pragmatic engineering mindset informed by both product metrics and low-level systems experience.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BEng & BSc Computer Systems Engineering and Computer Science, BEng & BSc Computer Systems Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Queensland
Github Skills (5)
browser10
python10
qt9
refactoring9
pyqt9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
qutebrowser/qutebrowser
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on Python and Qt.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 13 commits, 10 PRs in 9 days
Contributions summary:Tim primarily focused on refactoring the codebase by converting type comments to annotations and using the `from-import` style for typing, specifically within the `browser` directory. This involved modifying multiple files related to the browser's core functionality, including downloads, tab management, and URL handling. The user also added a new file for downloads, demonstrating a contribution to the browser's features. These changes suggest an effort to improve code maintainability and modernize the codebase.
pythonqtwebenginebrowservimvim-like
stimut/void-packages
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
The Void source packages collection
Contributions:17 pushes, 28 branches in 13 days
void
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