Tim Rourke
Software Engineer at Freshpaint
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolTim Rourke is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building well-tested, scalable data-intensive applications across cloud, backend, and front-end stacks. He’s delivered large replatforming projects—rewriting legacy mainframe processes into cost-optimized Spark pipelines that processed billions of datapoints and reduced build times from months to hours. At product companies he’s focused on IAM, application security, developer productivity, and automating operational toil, while also contributing to Ruby, .NET, Scala, Go, and TypeScript codebases. Tim is a pragmatic craftsman who prioritizes clean, well-tested code and collaborative design processes to translate messy requirements into reliable systems. He contributes to open-source front-end projects (notably improving test coverage for Shopify’s draggable library), reflecting a deep understanding of event handling and UI reliability. Based in Chicago, he pairs a data-and-automation-first engineering approach with a background in visual arts, which informs his attention to detail and UX sensibility.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Academic Realist Painting, Academic Realist Painting at Ravenswood AtelierHS Diploma Visual arts/College prep, HS Diploma Visual arts/College prep at Chicago Academy for the ArtsADMCICertificate in Full Stack Web Development Front end Node.js and Rails web development, Certificate in Full Stack Web Development Front end Node.js and Rails web development at General AssemblyCertificate Academic Realist Drawing & Painting, Certificate Academic Realist Drawing & Painting at Florence Academy of Art
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Github Skills (6)
unit-testing10
drag-and-drop10
javascript10
s610
draggable10
symfony6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/draggable
Sep 2017 - Dec 2017
The JavaScript Drag & Drop library your grandparents warned you about.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 7 PRs, 32 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily focused on testing and enhancing the JavaScript library's functionality, specifically regarding drag-and-drop interactions. They added and organized unit tests for key components like `AbstractEvent`, `DragEvent`, and utility functions like `closest`, increasing test coverage and improving code reliability. The commits demonstrate a strong understanding of the library's internal structure and event handling mechanisms, with a focus on ensuring proper behavior and responsiveness.
javascriptjavascript-dragdrag-and-dropes6drop-library
timrourke/incognito
Mar 2018 - May 2020
A suite of tools for working with AWS Cognito
Contributions:27 PRs, 133 pushes, 28 branches in 2 years 2 months
cloud-infrastructureaws-cognitocognitoawssuite
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