Tim Condon
Founder at ServerSide.swift
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Condon is a founder and full-stack software engineer with 15+ years of experience building high-assurance systems across mobile, server, embedded and security domains. He leads Broken Hands, delivering server-side Swift consultancy, training and cloud solutions, and co-leads the core team for Vapor—the widely used server-side Swift web framework—contributing to its HTTP server, auth and documentation. An organiser of the ServerSide.swift conference and an international speaker, he combines hands-on engineering with developer evangelism and community building. Past roles at the BBC and BAE showcase his ability to improve reliability and delivery at scale—raising BBC iPlayer download success from 52% to 94%—while his open source work (notably on vapor, fluent and SwiftSoup) highlights deep cross-platform and test-focused expertise. He’s based in Stevenage, UK, publishes as 0xTim, and even if he claims to be a musician, his real instrument is clean, secure server-side Swift.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Computer Science with Industrial Experience, Computer Science, BSc (Hons) Computer Science with Industrial Experience, Computer Science at The University of Manchester
French, Spanish, Portuguese, English
Stackoverflow
5,434reputation
79kreached
160answers
2questions
swift
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Github Skills (30)
testing10
databases10
http10
linux10
cicd10
server-side-swift10
orm10
web-framework10
swift10
fluentd10
documentation10
database10
application-framework9
vapor9
app-framework9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
vapor/docs
Apr 2017 - Jan 2023
📖 Documentation markdown for all Vapor packages.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:322 reviews, 81 commits, 324 PRs in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily focused on maintaining and improving the documentation site for the Vapor framework. They implemented scripts to fix the search index and set up redirects for the new directory structure. Additionally, the user addressed site issues by removing old documentation, adding Google Search verification, and adding German translations. They also fixed Carbon and made swift scripts more lenient to improve the site.
server-side-swiftswiftmarkdownvapor
vapor/vapor
Feb 2017 - Jan 2023
💧 A server-side Swift HTTP web framework.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 468 reviews, 105 commits in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Tim focused on enhancing the server-side Swift HTTP web framework, Vapor. Their contributions include implementing features to allow queries with parameters, fixing authentication tests, and ensuring empty values are allowed in queries. They also made changes based on code reviews, and updated the test suite to cover new functionality and edge cases. Their work primarily involved modifying core components related to form URL encoding and request handling, demonstrating a strong understanding of the framework's internal structure.
http2frameworkswift-nioswiftserver-side
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