Summary
Tim Dunn is a Public Health Informatics Scientist and full-stack developer with 11 years of experience shipping production web applications in Ruby on Rails, Python, and React. He specializes in jumping into existing codebases, rescuing legacy systems, and delivering working fixes within 48 hours—skills proven by 2x–10x performance gains on mission‑critical healthcare and cybersecurity platforms. Tim has built 22 products as a freelancer, launched a zero-bug produce-matching MVP in four months for The Farmlink Project, and optimized dashboards to cut queries by 80% at a SaaS security company. He combines backend API expertise (Rails, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis) with frontend work (React, Next.js) and large-scale web scraping/automation. Now keeping disease surveillance systems running 24/7 for the Southern Nevada Health District, he brings a production‑critical mindset where downtime has real public‑health consequences. US‑based and available for immediate start, he offers rapid, measurable impact on performance and reliability.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, Bachelor of Arts in Sociology at Arizona State University
TEFL, TEFL at Maximo Nivel
Rails Web Development, Rails Web Development at Bloc