Tim Garrity
Senior Solutions Engineer at Microsoft
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Garrity is a Senior Solutions Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building full-stack, cloud-native systems and driving SRE transformations for enterprises. He blends frontend craftsmanship with backend and infrastructure expertise—Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, Go, and TDD—to deliver scalable, maintainable platforms and internal tooling. At Kohl's he architected ML-backed chat systems and internal apps that cut toil dramatically and accelerated response times by orders of magnitude; earlier roles at VMware and Pivotal focused on Platform-as-a-Product practices and deployment velocity. Tim champions XP practices like paired programming and TDD to reduce defects and ensure systems scale, and he brings a scientist’s curiosity and patience to iterative product outcomes. He also contributes to open-source blockchain tooling, improving backend data handling for an established block explorer, reflecting a practical interest in decentralized systems. Based in New York, he balances production-grade engineering with ongoing side projects across the stack.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Theatre Design and Performance, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Theatre Design and Performance at Colorado State UniversityFront-End Engineering, Front-End Engineering at Turing School of Software & Design
Spanish
Github Skills (12)
javascript10
nodejs10
mongodb-database9
mongodb9
mongoose9
api8
apidoc8
database-design8
expressjs7
block-ui7
blocks7
data-explorer7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
iquidus/explorer
Mar 2019 - May 2022
An open source block explorer
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 17 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to the backend logic of the block explorer. They made updates to routes/index.js, including adding a claim form and address retrieval features. They also modified lib/database.js to include address label updates and improve overall database functionality. Further, they contributed to several commits that changed the database models, and settings.js, indicating a focus on the core data handling and configuration of the explorer.
node-jsblockchainnodejsblock-explorerexplorer
ezrpg/ezRPG-1.2.x
Jun 2013 - Dec 2016
Contributions:249 commits, 31 PRs, 91 pushes in 3 years 7 months
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