Tim Jäger
Senior Staff Software Engineer at SandboxAQ
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Jäger is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, large-scale developer workflows and release engineering for security-sensitive products. Based in Palo Alto, he has led monorepo migrations, Bazel build optimization, reproducible container pipelines, and automated release flows across polyglot stacks (Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, TypeScript). He thrives at the intersection of CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code and supply-chain security—driving SBOM generation, container hardening, and multi-registry distribution for production systems. A hands-on mentor and org-level technical lead, he has guided teams through tooling transitions and intelligent test/caching strategies to boost engineering velocity. An active open-source Emacs contributor, he has extended Spacemacs with custom which-key integrations and new layers, revealing a long-standing commitment to developer ergonomics and productivity.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences
Github Skills (14)
configuration-management10
configurations10
keybindings10
configuration-file10
spacemacs10
emacs-lisp10
helm9
clojure8
vim8
org-mode8
clojure-cli8
gforth8
f8
co7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
syl20bnr/spacemacs
Jul 2015 - Jul 2017
A community-driven Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 15 PRs, 10 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Tim contributed significantly to the Spacemacs configuration, primarily focused on enhancing the user experience and adding new features. Their work involved customizing the `which-key` functionality, adding keybindings for various modes (Org, Ledger, Clojure, Forth), and implementing a new search tool for Helm. The user also introduced a new layer for Snoopy-mode and modified existing configuration files, suggesting proficiency in Emacs Lisp. These contributions improve functionality and expand user customization options.
configurationvimspacemacsemacsemacs-lsp
jgertm/lang
Jul 2018 - Dec 2021
Like a programming language, but worse
Contributions:3 reviews, 128 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 6 months
compilerlanguage-designprogramming-languageinterpreter
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