Tim O'brien

San Francisco, California, United States

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Summary

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Tim O'brien is a versatile software engineer with 14 years of experience building embedded, mobile, and control systems from San Francisco. He has shipped flight control firmware in C and Python at Matternet, driven JNI/native C improvements at Lookout, and built high-performance Android apps and server integrations at INQ Mobile. Tim blends deep systems-level skills with practical product focus—authoring test infrastructure, unit/regression suites, and hardware test rigs to increase reliability. An active open-source contributor, he improved cross-platform behavior and macOS integrations for the widely used oh-my-zsh project, showing attention to developer UX and platform nuances. He pairs a Computer Engineering degree from NC State with a background in media and design, which surfaces in polished UI work and thoughtful engineering tradeoffs.

14 years of coding experience

2 years of employment as a software developer

Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, 3.336, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, 3.336 at North Carolina State University

San José State University

geek, English, Spanish

Github Skills (18)

multiplatform10

scripting10

plugin-development10

cross-platform10

terminal-application10

script10

system-integration10

sh10

shell10

zsh10

cli8

oh-my-zsh7

cli-app7

cli-application7

plugin6

Programming languages (14)

C#C++CSSCRustDMakefileVue

Github contributions (5)

ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh

Nov 2014 - Sep 2015

🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,400+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

Role in this project:

Full-stack Developer

Contributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 10 months

Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to the `bgnotify` plugin, a feature within the oh-my-zsh framework. Their work involved enhancing the plugin's cross-platform compatibility, including support for Cygwin/Windows environments. They also refactored the time display format, improved integration with OS X notification systems (terminal-notifier and growlnotify) including click actions for iTerm2, and updated the plugin to align with another community-maintained version. These changes indicate a focus on shell scripting and platform integration.

oh-my-zsh-pluginpythonrails-pluginszsh-configurationauto-update

t413/zsh-background-notify

Nov 2014 - Sep 2015

cross-platform background notifications for long running commands!

Contributions:23 commits, 5 PRs, 8 pushes in 10 months

windowslinuxnotificationslongcross-platform

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