Tim Schmelter
Software Engineer at aws-amplify
Seattle, Washington, United States
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RockstarTim Schmelter is a software engineer with 12 years of experience based in Seattle, currently contributing to AWS Amplify and the aws-sdk-ios and amplify-swift projects. He spans full-stack, back-end, and DevOps work—improving iOS SDK database performance, ensuring Swift/Xcode compatibility, and integrating authentication, storage, and API features in Amplify Swift. Tim has shipped cross-region cloud support (including ap-east-1 and me-south-1) and refactored core configuration, showing an eye for both performance and maintainability. Comfortable working across mobile, cloud services, and infrastructure, he blends pragmatic engineering with open-source collaboration on widely used AWS client libraries.
12 years of coding experience
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Github contributions (5)
aws-amplify/aws-sdk-ios
Nov 2018 - May 2022
AWS SDK for iOS. For more information, see our web site:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 300 reviews, 305 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Tim made significant contributions to improve database performance, implementing a serial database connection for Kinesis and modifying existing plist files to conform to Xcode standards. They also added support for the 'ap-east-1' (Hong Kong) and 'me-south-1' (Bahrain) AWS regions across multiple files. Furthermore, the user worked on Swift 5 and Xcode 10.2 compatibility, removing unused variables, fixing deprecations, and adding nullability specifiers. The user's contributions span areas of both back-end and DevOps, showing skills in both.
objective-cweb-siteaws-sdk-iosaws-sdksdk
aws-amplify/amplify-swift
May 2019 - Oct 2022
A declarative library for application development using cloud services.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 331 reviews, 155 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Tim's contributions are centered around the development of the Amplify Swift library, with a focus on integrating and testing various cloud services. The commits show work on core functionalities, including the implementation of user authentication, storage, and API interactions. They also made progress on the structure of the codebase by adding core support and by refactoring the configuration.
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