Tim Camper
Application Developer & Infrastructure Automation Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Camper is a seasoned application developer and infrastructure automation engineer with 15+ years delivering backend systems and platform tooling across industries like finance, insurance, pharma, airlines, and government. He blends hands-on Python and Go development with HashiCorp tooling, CircleCI, and Kubernetes on AWS to drive repeatable, automated application delivery. Historically fluent in Ruby on Rails, Spring, and heavy Selenium test automation, Tim brings deep experience modernizing legacy stacks and building CI/CD-first delivery pipelines. Based in Chicago, he pairs pragmatic engineering with agile practices honed at ThoughtWorks, tackling some of the largest, most complex projects in their domains. An open-source-minded tinkerer, he refactored and modernized a Kindle build of SICP, showing an unusual mix of systems-level automation and appreciation for technical pedagogy.
15 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Applied Linguistics, Applied Linguistics at University of Illinois ChicagoBA, English, History, German, Sociology, Political Science, Forestry, Biology, Philosophy, BA, English, History, German, Sociology, Political Science, Forestry, Biology, Philosophy at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Italian, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
rake10
kindle10
ruby10
html9
markdown6
markdown-it6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
twcamper/sicp-kindle
Oct 2011 - Jul 2017
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, 2nd Edition, by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman, The MIT Press.
formatted and built for mobi/kindle
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 1 push in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily focused on refactoring and improving the build process for a Kindle version of "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs." They updated the build script to use Rake, separating output artifacts and source code. Contributions include modifying HTML parsing, updating the build process with the 'kindlegen' tool, and correcting the codebase to handle the book's HTML structure properly. Additionally, the user added and updated the README, and updated the licensing terms to public domain.
txtjaymobipresskindle
twcamper/cuporter
Aug 2010 - Jul 2011
Contributions:181 commits in 10 months
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