Tim Shedor
Staff Engineer at Said Studios, LLC
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Shedor is a Staff Engineer based in Portland, Oregon with 14 years of professional experience building fast, reliable web and mobile products. He combines front-end fluency in React, Firebase, Swift and TypeScript with back-end experience in Ruby on Rails and pragmatic full-stack delivery, having led POS architecture and cross-platform efforts at Dutchie. A proven contractor and founder (Said Studios, Wedfuly) who never misses deadlines, he pairs rapid prototyping skills with a conviction that fundamentals beat flashy frameworks. Tim is an active open-source contributor—his work ranges from improving Prism.js theming to extending Google Maps place details and hardening Rails CMS tooling—showing attention to both UI polish and backend correctness. He organizes the developer community behind Ask a Dev and publishes a detailed, proficiency-ordered record of his production experience at timshedor.com.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of KansasHigh School, High School at Shawnee Mission East High School
Spanish, German
Github Skills (15)
testing10
css10
cms10
rails10
dart10
api10
google-maps-api10
syntax-highlighting10
apidoc10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
ui-design9
activerecord9
rspec8
javascript6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
wearefine/fae
Nov 2014 - Jan 2018
CMS for Rails. For Reals.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:633 commits, 106 PRs, 301 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily worked on the backend aspects of the Fae CMS for Rails, fixing extension-related issues during the generation process. They also contributed to the data model, adding validations to the user model and defining methods for checking user roles. Their changes indicate a focus on enhancing the core functionality of the CMS by improving validations and streamlining the build process.
cmsruby-on-railsrailsrails-enginecfml
PrismJS/prism
Jul 2013 - Aug 2013
Lightweight, robust, elegant syntax highlighting.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to the theming and styling of the Prism.js syntax highlighter. Their work involved creating and refining the "coy" theme, modifying CSS to achieve specific visual effects and addressing rendering issues. They iterated on the CSS, making adjustments to shadows, overflow behavior, and overall visual appearance, ensuring proper integration with the highlighting functionality. Additionally, the user integrated the "coy" theme into the core of the project, allowing it to be selected as a theme option.
highlightjshighlightingprismjsprismicsyntax-highlighting
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