Tim Mower
Site Reliability Engineer at Yelp
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarTim Mower is a Site Reliability Engineer based in London with 17 years of experience building and operating resilient web platforms. He has led platform teams at the UK Government Digital Service, developing cloud-native services, service broker APIs in Go, and a Concourse-driven CI/CD pipeline while mentoring and line-managing engineers. At IPC Media he drove infrastructure and release improvements—cutting build times, migrating hundreds of repos to Git, and introducing CI and PagerDuty—skills he carries into his current SRE role at Yelp. He contributes to open-source, notably improving Logstash formatting in the widely used monolog logging library, showing an attention to observability and pragmatic refactors. Tim combines hands-on systems work (databases, service brokers, dashboards) with a knack for operationalising developer workflows and platform self-service. Colleagues value him for turning complex operational requirements into repeatable, testable platform features that scale.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (12)
logging10
php10
psr-310
logstash10
xhtml10
phpunit9
html9
rpmbuild6
svn6
xdebug6
optimization6
rpm6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Seldaek/monolog
Oct 2012 - Dec 2012
Sends your logs to files, sockets, inboxes, databases and various web services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to the `seldaek/monolog` repository by implementing and refactoring the LogstashEventFormatter. They added the ability to specify an application name, which maps to the Logstash `@type` field. The user also refactored the code, including fixing indentation and removing references to a GelfFormatter.
loggerphploggingsocketsdatabases
timmow/vimrc
Feb 2009 - Dec 2022
Contributions:124 commits, 43 pushes in 14 years 1 month
vim-pluginneovimvimvimrc
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