Tim Dorr
Candidate For Georgia State House (District 53)
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Dorr is a Principal Engineer and startup builder with 13 years of experience scaling web platforms used by millions of sites and growing companies across the Atlanta ecosystem. He co-founded SalesLoft and multiple startups, has led engineering and product efforts as CTO, and served as Managing Director of Techstars Atlanta, blending hands-on engineering with founder-level strategic leadership. Tim is a strong full-stack developer and prolific open-source contributor — notable work includes contributions to redux, react-router, and react-redux that improve core React state and routing patterns. He has a history of rebuilding platforms (Showcase IDX) and shipping developer tooling and CI/CD systems that accelerate product teams. Based in Atlanta and Georgia Tech–trained, he also runs community-facing initiatives like co-working spaces and startup advisories, demonstrating a knack for ecosystem-building as well as code. One lesser-known thread: he maintains practical integrations like a popular Tesla API Ruby gem and browser media-extension fixes, showing curiosity from infrastructure to consumer tooling.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English
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redux
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ruby
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routes
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react-router
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javascript
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Github Skills (38)
javascript10
middleware10
apidoc10
testing10
css10
server-side-rendering10
typescript10
type-definition10
chrome-extension10
redux10
webpack10
ruby10
dom-manipulation10
eventmachine10
api10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
reactjs/react-router-redux
Dec 2015 - Oct 2018
Ruthlessly simple bindings to keep react-router and redux in sync
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 129 commits, 82 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Tim contributed to the `react-router-redux` repository by implementing and enhancing core functionality. Their work involved adding action creators for navigation (go, goBack, goForward), ensuring the reducer correctly handled location updates. They updated the example to use modern JavaScript features and refactored the project to utilize `react-router-redux`. Furthermore, they updated tests and made sure the code supported a variety of scenarios, including SSR.
reactreact-router-v4keepsyncredux
timdorr/tesla-api
Feb 2013 - Jan 2023
🚘 A Ruby gem and unofficial documentation of Tesla's JSON API for the Model S, 3, X, and Y.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 12 reviews, 253 commits in 10 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Tim developed a Ruby gem to interact with the Tesla API, creating a wrapper library to access vehicle data and control features. They implemented functionalities for retrieving vehicle attributes, managing charging, and controlling various vehicle functions. Furthermore, the user added streaming capabilities using EventMachine and Faye::WebSocket::Client to receive real-time data from the API. They converted streaming data to floats and managed the websocket connection.
json-sapiruby-gemrubygem
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