Tim Potter
Principal Systems Architect at T-Mobile
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Potter is a Principal Systems Architect and seasoned technology leader with over three decades of hands-on engineering and leadership experience, currently shaping architecture at T‑Mobile from his Seattle base. He has built and scaled engineering organizations (helping grow a company from 37 to 330 people in 18 months), led SAFe rollouts, and created enterprise architecture practices that align product strategy with business transformation. His background spans telecom, enterprise software, manufacturing, and systems integration, with deep expertise in distributed systems, SOA/SaaS, HA, and continuous improvement. A pragmatic coder early in his career across languages from Java and Python to C++ and Fortran, he remains engaged in open-source mapping work—contributing full‑stack fixes and releases to TileMill, a noted map design studio. Known for transparent, high‑integrity leadership, he combines rigorous follow‑through with a talent for recruiting and coaching top engineering teams to deliver complex, customer‑facing systems.
7 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Business (Information Systems Operations Management), Bachelor Business (Information Systems Operations Management) at University of Washington
Github Skills (14)
map-box10
javascript10
mapbox-gl10
npm9
version-control9
nodejs9
git9
shell8
script8
sh8
openstreetmap8
scripting8
css7
backbone6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tilemill-project/tilemill
Jan 2019 - Oct 2019
TileMill is a modern map design studio
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 39 commits, 46 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily worked on maintaining and updating the TileMill project, including bug fixes and version upgrades. Their contributions involved fixing tests related to version assertions and dependencies. They also upgraded dependent packages, refactored code to use scoped package names, and updated shell scripts. Furthermore, the user handled merging branches, updating CSS styles, and made adjustments for a new release, including updated build/release components.
tmsmapbox-gl-jsmap-tilesmap-editormapbox
tilemill-project/wax
Apr 2019 - May 2019
Wax Documentation:
Contributions:6 PRs, 9 pushes, 11 branches in 1 month
wax
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