Tim Savage
Head Of Software Engineering at Westpac
Wollongong City Council, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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RockstarTim Savage is a Head of Software Engineering with 15 years of experience building and leading teams that deliver large-scale data applications and developer tooling to improve delivery velocity and data quality. He combines hands-on expertise in Python, C/C++, C#, SQL and Unix/Linux systems with practical architecture and testing discipline, and has migrated major open-source components (notably contributing Python 3 support to the DataStax Cassandra driver). Based in Wollongong, Australia, he has held senior engineering and technical lead roles across banking, retail and media, and currently blends solutions architecture with server-side engineering at Ecologic Apps. Colleagues rely on him for clear design, strong documentation and production-grade automation, and outside work he identifies as a musician and tinkerer—someone who brings practical curiosity and operational rigor to complex engineering problems.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
English
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Github Skills (23)
unit-testing10
c-language10
python10
cassandra10
esp826610
iot10
six10
esp3210
cprogramming-language10
cassandra-database10
home-automation10
i2c9
integration-testing9
pytest8
testing8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
datastax/python-driver
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
DataStax Python Driver for Apache Cassandra
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits in 8 days
Contributions summary:Tim primarily focused on migrating the DataStax Python Driver for Apache Cassandra to support Python 3, addressing compatibility issues across various Python versions. They updated setup.py, integration tests, and unit tests to reflect Python 3 standards, including imports, string handling, and syntax. Their contributions involved substantial code modifications across multiple files, demonstrating a strong understanding of the codebase and the necessary adjustments for Python 3 compliance.
python-driverpythoncassandraapachedatastax
pyapp-org/pyapp.aiobotocore
May 2019 - Oct 2022
AIOBotocore Extension
Contributions:38 pushes, 6 branches, 4 tags in 3 years 5 months
aiobotocore
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