Tim Hess
Staff Software Engineer at Broadcom Software
Stevens Point, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolTim Hess is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience helping teams build cloud-native .NET microservices, currently enabling developer productivity at Broadcom after leading VMware’s .NET Experience Program. He designs and maintains frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and documentation for Steeltoe, a notable open-source .NET project for cloud configuration, service discovery, and observability. Tim combines hands-on backend development and project structure refactors with practical DevOps and security best practices to improve maintainability and deployment velocity. His background ranges from enterprise architecture and full-stack web work to running production CI/CD for NuGet packages across Azure DevOps and legacy CI systems. Based in Stevens Point, WI, he’s as comfortable mentoring teams and defining processes as he is diving into shared properties and license hygiene in large open-source repos. Colleagues rely on him for steady technical leadership that blends pragmatic engineering with clear developer experience improvements.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BBA Computer End User Technology, BBA Computer End User Technology at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
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Github Skills (18)
back-end-development10
net10
dotnet10
asp-net-core10
entity-framework-core10
asp-net10
sql-server10
dotnet-core10
refactoring10
csharp10
configuration-management9
configuration-file9
configurations9
versioning9
cloud-foundry8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
SteeltoeOSS/Samples
Aug 2017 - Dec 2022
Steeltoe samples and reference application collection
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:241 reviews, 285 commits, 127 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Tim focused on the development of backend features, primarily related to setting up and initializing a sample project for the SQL Server connector within the SteeltoeOSS samples repository. Their work included initializing the project for the SQL Server connector, creating and modifying models and related code, and integrating it with ASP.NET Core. The contributions also involved updating dependencies and using the correct NuGet packages.
circuit-breakeryangservice-discoverynetscalermicroservice
SteeltoeOSS/Steeltoe
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
.NET Components for Externalized Configuration, Database Connectors, Service Discovery, Logging and Distributed Tracing, Application Management, Security, and more.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 972 reviews, 414 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Tim's commits primarily focused on refactoring and improving the structure of project files, including shorter folder names, centralized version management, and license expressions. They also updated project files to utilize shared properties and implemented various code improvements across several modules. The contributions involved modifications to the source code of multiple .NET Core projects within the repository.
circuit-breakerloggingservice-discoverynet-coremicroservices
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