Tim Saylor
Staff Software Engineer at SpotHero
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolTim Saylor is a Staff Software Engineer in Chicago with 17 years of experience building scalable web platforms and leading engineering teams from startup to product-stage companies. He pairs deep hands-on backend expertise in Python and cloud-native architectures with a proven track record of improving delivery processes, from instituting reliable sprint execution to designing testable implementations that reduce regressions. As an engineering leader and people manager he has hired and mentored dozens of engineers, shaped roadmaps, and grown teams that bridge product and operations—most recently driving platform work at SpotHero after leading platform engineering at arturo.ai. He’s comfortable taking systems from prototype to production scale (e.g., transforming a travel API to handle tens of millions of itineraries daily) and deliberately builds psychologically safe teams where learning and collaboration are expected. Quietly pragmatic, he balances tactical coding with long-term architectural thinking to deliver measurable product value.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
1,054reputation
2.9mreached
12answers
1question
django
top-5%
django-rest-framework
top-5%
Github Skills (39)
python10
django10
api10
rest10
django-rest-framework10
rails-app9
rest-api9
json7
validation7
pgadmin6
django-admin6
password-recovery6
django-views6
database6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tsaylor/nepal
Mar 2015 - Jun 2020
Codename Nepal
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 3 months
codenamenepal
ppprs/powerracingseries.org
Aug 2014 - May 2019
Rails app for www.powerracingseries.org
Contributions:25 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
ruby-on-railsrailsrails-appruby
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.