Tim Howe
Innovative Systems Consultant
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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SeniorTim Howe is an Innovative Systems Consultant based in Cambridge, MA with 13 years of experience building reliable, secure systems across web, mobile, desktop, and medical device domains. He combines hands-on full-stack engineering with systems and program management, specializing in requirements-driven development, compliance (HIPAA, ISO/IEC 62304), and risk-aware product delivery. Recent work focuses on health and wellness: HIPAA-compliant SMS brokers, medical device workflows, adaptive fitness apps, and SQA automation for care-team communications. He’s comfortable with any tool that fits the problem and has a track record of creating tools when none exist, from CloudFormation deployment tooling to EMR/EHR interoperability architectures. An active back-end open-source contributor, he has improved WooCommerce webhooks, sanitization, and REST API date handling—practical fixes that reflect his emphasis on Robustness and user-centered outcomes. Practical, standards-minded, and quietly inventive, he favors solutions that reduce burden for users and clinicians rather than add it.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (6)
wordpress10
woocommerce10
rest-api10
php10
back-end-development10
ecommerce9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce
Nov 2017 - May 2021
A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 12 PRs, 27 comments in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the WooCommerce platform. Their commits focused on fixing bugs related to webhook editing, improving code by adding exception handling, and improving input sanitization. Additionally, they introduced new features, such as the ability to retrieve all currency symbols and expanded the date parameters for the order REST API.
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TimBHowe/woocommerce
May 2018 - Dec 2021
An open source eCommerce plugin for WordPress.
Contributions:30 pushes, 23 branches in 3 years 7 months
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