Tim Mclain
Vice President, Public Sector at LILT AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolTim Mclain is a public sector technology leader with 12 years of experience at the intersection of AI, cloud, and defense-focused sales, now serving as Vice President, Public Sector at LILT where he helps government organizations adopt contextual AI translation solutions. He previously led Data Analytics and AI sales for Google Public Sector and has a track record of managing federal and DoD accounts across Nutanix, McAfee/Skyhigh, Adobe, and Cisco. Comfortable bridging technical and commercial worlds, Tim pairs enterprise sales strategy with hands-on engineering contributions—he’s an active open-source back-end contributor (notably improving integrations in the widely used rclone cloud storage tool and hardening article summarization tooling in PyTeaser). Based in San Francisco, he brings deep domain knowledge of government procurement cycles and a pragmatic engineering mindset, often diving into YAML and integration details to unblock deployments.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
University
Stackoverflow
23reputation
2kreached
0answers
3questions
Github Skills (31)
apim10
api-rest10
back-end-development10
python10
api-design10
restful-api10
text-summarization10
webscraping10
rclone10
go10
api10
cloud-storage10
rest-api10
backend10
beautifulsoup9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
xiaoxu193/PyTeaser
Dec 2013 - Dec 2013
Summarizes news articles
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 7 days
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to the core logic and setup of the `pyteaser` project, which summarizes news articles. They refactored the `split_sentences` function by removing a dependency on the NLTK library, improving the project's robustness. Additionally, the user added features like cookie support, and added the Python-Goose project, indicating experience with web extraction libraries. The user made changes to setup.py to prepare for deployment.
nlpnewsnews-articlespyteaser
rclone/rclone
Feb 2020 - Sep 2020
"rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 4 PRs, 14 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily focused on improving the Rclone codebase by adding features and addressing bugs related to cloud storage integrations. Their contributions included refining log outputs, passing options to the `rest.Opts` method across various cloud storage backends (Jottacloud, Google Photos, WebDAV, Pcloud, Opendrive, Yandex, Sharefile, B2, Sugarsync, Premiumizeme, Box, Onedrive, Fichier), and implementing options for custom HTTP headers for upload and download transactions. They also introduced and utilized the `HTTPOption` to enable support for custom HTTP headers for upload and download.
googlefile-storageyandexonedrivestorage
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.