Tim Dodge
Assistant Vice President Of Information And Education
Town of Salina, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Dodge is an insurance industry leader and educator with over two decades of experience interpreting commercial and personal property/casualty policies and New York insurance law while supporting independent agents as AVP of Information and Education at Big I New York. He blends deep subject-matter expertise with training and course development—having built and delivered programs for carriers, brokers, and regulators—and produces written and audio content (fiction, non‑fiction, podcasting) to clarify complex topics. Tim also brings 11 years of hands-on technical contribution in open-source back-end projects, notably implementing transport and auth layers for a Python SDK for the Looker API and improving GitHub release automation in the popular release-please tool. Based in the Town of Salina, NY, he pairs regulatory savvy with practical product-focused engineering experience, making him adept at translating legal and technical complexity into usable guidance.
11 years of coding experience
B.S., Political Science, Economics, B.S., Political Science, Economics at State University of New York College at Brockport
Github Skills (26)
conventional-commits10
develop10
python10
apidoc10
lerna10
release-management10
api10
testing9
serializer9
serializable9
git9
serialization9
automation9
nodejs9
deserialization9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
looker-open-source/sdk-codegen
Jul 2019 - Jul 2022
One SDK to rule them all, and in the codegen bind them
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:80 releases, 459 reviews, 257 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to the development of a Python SDK for the Looker API. Their work focused on creating and implementing the RTL (Runtime Library) transport layer, including setting up the HTTP request handling, handling authentication, and implementing serialization and deserialization logic. The user also worked on defining interfaces and structures for the transport layer, as well as implementing and testing various components of the SDK. The work is focused on building and maintaining the SDK's core functionality and interactions with the Looker API.
code-generationpythonlooker-sdkopenapi-specificationswift5
googleapis/release-please
Jan 2021 - Jul 2021
generate release PRs based on the conventionalcommits.org spec
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:149 reviews, 45 commits, 51 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to the `release-please` project by implementing features and fixing bugs related to the release process. They focused on improving the handling of monorepos, specifically addressing issues with GitHub release creation in monorepo structures. They also introduced the ability to create draft releases. Furthermore, the user was involved in refactoring and updating the code, including improvements to the commit splitting functionality and improvements to the GitHub interactions, as well as updating the lerna dependencies.
golangchangelogpublishrelease-managementrelease-automation
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