Tim Mok
Senior Software Engineer at Posit PBC
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolTim Mok is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building IDEs, mobile apps, and large-scale backend systems across C++, Java, TypeScript, React Native, PHP, Cassandra and Solr. Currently at Posit he contributes to the RStudio IDE, improving editor UX and export functionality—an example of his knack for polishing developer tools and front-end integrations in a complex C++/TS codebase. His background spans consumer-facing mobile work at Untappd, ad systems at TripAdvisor, and developer tooling at Rogue Wave and IBM, reflecting comfort across full-stack and systems-level challenges. A University of British Columbia graduate based in Ottawa, he’s passionate about automation and pragmatic problem solving, and often surfaces subtle UX fixes that improve developer productivity.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Software Engineering at Carleton University
Stackoverflow
31reputation
2kreached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (12)
javascript10
gwt10
html9
user-interface9
css8
electron7
syntax-highlighting7
highlight7
highlighting7
syntax-highlighter7
highlighter7
rtc6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
rstudio/rstudio
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:248 reviews, 229 commits, 262 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Tim focused on enhancing the user interface of the RStudio IDE. Their contributions include adding hover text to project buttons, implementing SQL hash comment highlighting by adding a rule, and fixing the rendering of HTML messages in the gutter. They also worked on improvements for the display of source code markers in the editor. They addressed issues in the export to PDF function, fixing the orientation to match the selected options and updating the recent file and project menu items.
integratedrstudiointegrated-development-environmentidedevelopment-environment
timtmok/ktanemod-combination_lock
Jul 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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.