Tim Pease
Staff Software Engineer at IonQ
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Pease is a Staff Software Engineer based in Boulder with nearly two decades of experience designing and operating distributed systems, search architectures, and production web services. He’s repeatedly paired hands-on engineering with team growth—mentoring junior engineers, leading hiring, and coordinating cross-functional upgrades at companies like GitHub and Stripe. His background in physics informs a data-driven, verification-minded approach: at CIRES he cut weather verification latency from 24 hours to one, and at GitHub he built idempotent indexing and a flexible query language for large-scale search. Tim contributes to embedded/IoT tooling as well, improving Raspberry Pi PWM control for WS281X LEDs, reflecting a comfort moving between low-level systems and cloud services. Now at IonQ after a recent staff role at EOI Space, he focuses on scalable, maintainable architectures that make complex systems easier to operate.
19 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Physics, MS, Physics at University of Colorado BoulderBS, Physics, Mathematics, BS, Physics, Mathematics at Oral Roberts University
Github Skills (10)
c1710
gpio10
embedded10
raspberry-pi10
c1110
sys10
pwm10
iot9
python9
memory-management8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jgarff/rpi_ws281x
Dec 2014 - Dec 2014
Userspace Raspberry Pi PWM library for WS281X LEDs
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 2 days
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to a Raspberry Pi PWM library for WS281X LEDs, making modifications to improve functionality and usability. Their work includes implementing brightness control, modifying existing code to address potential memory management issues, and integrating the new features within the Python bindings for the library. These changes enhance the control and flexibility of the LED driver, making it more adaptable for different projects.
hyperionraspberry-piuserspaceledspwm
TwP/bones
Dec 2007 - May 2022
Mr Bones is a handy tool that creates new projects from a code skeleton
Contributions:341 commits, 14 PRs, 20 pushes in 14 years 7 months
skeletonjavascriptboneshandy
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