Tim Burks
Software Engineer at Agent IO
Los Altos, California, United States
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RockstarTim Burks is a software engineer in the SF Bay Area with 15 years of experience building backend systems, APIs, and iOS apps, including contributions at Google Cloud. He bridges low-level systems work (CgRPC and interpreted Lisp runtime fixes) with high-level API tooling, having improved OpenAPI/Discovery parsing and gRPC Swift support. Tim has hands-on experience modernizing mobile samples and SDKs—adding unit testing, bundle-ID aware API key support, and keeping samples in sync with evolving docs and best practices. Comfortable across Objective-C, Swift, and server-side code, he focuses on pragmatic fixes that improve correctness and interoperability rather than flashy rewrites. Based in Los Altos, he combines deep open-source troubleshooting with production experience shipping reliable developer-facing tools.
15 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (33)
objective-c10
ios10
mobile-development10
api-design10
http10
c1110
c1710
regular-expression10
go10
google-cloud-speech10
nethttp10
rest-api10
swift10
grpc10
lisp10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
programming-nu/nu
Jan 2011 - Jul 2019
Nu is an interpreted Lisp that builds on the Objective-C runtime and Foundation framework.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 2 reviews, 159 commits in 8 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily focused on fixing bugs related to the Nu regular expression and markup operator implementations within the Nu interpreted Lisp environment. Their contributions involved identifying and correcting issues with the evaluation of markup tags, and modifications to the handling of string attributes and boolean values. These efforts included enhancements in the regular expression, markup operator evaluation, and string handling areas of the project.
schemeobjective-cbuildsfoundation-frameworkobjective-c-runtime
google/gnostic
Oct 2016 - Dec 2022
A compiler for APIs described by the OpenAPI Specification with plugins for code generation and other API support tasks.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & API Developer
Back-end Developer & API DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 118 reviews, 579 commits in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tim contributed to the gnostic project by implementing features for parsing and converting API descriptions from Google's Discovery Format. The user made multiple code changes to the core OpenAPIv2 code generation module, which involved updating internal data structures, parsing strategies, and handling of different HTTP methods and responses. Additionally, the user added support for generating code that aligns with OpenAPI version 3.0.3 specifications.
openapi-codegenprotocol-bufferscode-generationlintersapi
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