Tim Kinnane
Principal Software Engineer at Pluralsight
Malmsbury, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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RockstarTim Kinnane is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience focused on education, developer tooling, and open source, currently driving architecture and developer experience at Pluralsight from Malmsbury, Victoria. He spans full‑stack development—contributing UI and backend fixes to notable projects like Rocket.Chat—and has a track record of founding and leading product teams that build conversational and decision‑support platforms. A hands‑on mentor, Tim champions neurodiversity in tech and integrates coaching into his engineering leadership. His career blends startup grit and enterprise scale, from founding Amazebot and co‑founding Property UX to senior roles at A Cloud Guru, giving him a pragmatic sense for shipping polished developer-facing products.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
English, Swedish, 1337
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
chat10
meteor10
collaboration10
realtime9
back-end-development9
front-end-development9
backend9
css8
ui-design8
webrtc7
mongodb6
typescript-generics6
wordpress6
typescript6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
RocketChat/Rocket.Chat
May 2018 - Feb 2019
The communications platform that puts data protection first.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 26 PRs, 1 push in 8 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily focused on improving the Rocket.Chat platform, addressing both backend and frontend issues. They fixed a bug related to room ID retrieval, enhanced the user interface by improving role tag display and styling, and added room name inclusion in bot stream messages. Additionally, the user implemented code changes to improve line heights and semantic error messages for user deletion.
meteordata-protectionchatjavascriptcollaboration
timkinnane/hubot-async
Sep 2016 - Feb 2018
A customizable life embetterment robot.
Contributions:2 releases, 22 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 4 months
customizableroboticsrobotlife
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