Tim Pierce
Senior Computer Scientist at Adobe
Carlisle, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolTim Pierce is a senior computer scientist with three decades of Unix and systems-software experience, specializing in Linux and FreeBSD since 1994. He designs and implements scalable infrastructure—from network drivers and mail systems to video streaming and content-addressed storage—bringing deep C/C++ and systems-level expertise alongside Go, Python and Lisp fluency. His career includes building one of the world’s largest mailing-list archives and pioneering adaptive mail filtering at RootsWeb, and later contributing SSL video delivery and realtime transmuxing at Google. At Adobe he leads data sovereignty work for Document Cloud, blending platform architecture with operational pragmatism. Comfortable across protocol stacks (HTTP, DNS, SMTP) and storage systems, he often surfaces elegant, low-level fixes that yield large operational gains. Based in Carlisle, MA, he pairs longtime open-source sensibilities with enterprise-grade delivery.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Amherst CollegeSt. Ann's School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (69)
gcp10
genomics10
nytimes10
aws10
bioinformatics10
biomedical10
azure9
command-line-interface9
python9
ruby9
amazon-web-services9
docker9
amazon9
aws-cli9
sdk8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
qwrrty/NYTdiff
Mar 2024 - Nov 2024
Code for the twitter bot nyt_diff
Contributions:21 pushes, 7 branches in 8 months
qwrrty/adventofcode2019
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 24 days
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