Tim Oliver
Principal Software Engineer at Third Intelligence
Minato, Japan
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Top SchoolTim Oliver is a Principal Software Engineer with 14+ years building polished mobile experiences across startups and global products, currently shaping consumer-facing iOS apps powered by proprietary AI at Third Intelligence. He combines deep iOS expertise—from performance tuning on older devices to automated release pipelines—with leadership experience at Meta/Instagram, Mercari, and as founder of indie studio XD Digital. A prolific open-source maintainer, Tim is known for popular libraries like TOCropViewController and contributions to Realm and FLEX that improve developer tooling and mobile data inspection. Bilingual and Tokyo-based after years between Australia and Japan, he bridges cross-cultural product teams and regularly presents at conferences while continuing to publish OSS and ship commercial apps.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Multimedia, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Multimedia, Computer Science at Edith Cowan University
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (41)
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databases10
html-template10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
TimOliver/TOWebViewController
May 2013 - Sep 2019
A view controller class for iOS that allows users to view web pages directly within an app.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:247 commits, 39 PRs, 119 pushes in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily worked on implementing and refining features for an iOS web view controller, adding the features for loading bar, device rotation, UI theming and one password integration. Contributions include adding device rotation handling, and adding loading bar and various other UI enhancements. They also worked on localization features.
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TimOliver/TOCropViewController
Jun 2015 - Aug 2022
A view controller for iOS that allows users to crop portions of UIImage objects
Role in this project:iOS Mobile Developer
iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 1 review, 610 commits in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily focused on implementing and refining features related to image cropping within the iOS application. They addressed various bug fixes and made refinements to the transition animation, specifically concerning the presentation and dismissal of the crop view controller. They also updated the app to handle iPhone X safe areas and addressed some issues with rotation handling during image cropping. Furthermore, the user implemented Swift interoperability and improved the display of toolbar buttons.
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