Tim Shelburne
Software Engineer
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolTim Shelburne is a versatile software engineer and leader with 12 years of experience building back-end systems and guiding product and technical strategy in startups and enterprise teams across New York and beyond. He has held senior engineering and executive roles—including Staff Engineer/CPO/Acting CTO at Ordaos Bio and co‑founder/CTO at ASSESS+RE—bridging hands‑on development with product leadership. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he refactored core fixture-loading logic in the nelmio/alice project to improve test data architecture and maintainability. Tim’s background in math, music, and Russian, combined with international living and unusual problem-solving experiences (from translating under pressure to handcrafting a bass), gives him a pragmatic creativity that fuels robust, user-focused solutions. He’s drawn to software because it rewards craft and ideas, and he excels at turning determination and unique concepts into practical, influential products.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Math Music Russian, Bachelor's Math Music Russian at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English, Russian, Chinese, French, Spanish, Italian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
php10
object-oriented-programming10
architecture9
architectures9
nodejs9
unit-testing8
yaml8
symfony-ux7
symfony7
activerecord6
laravel6
superagent6
eloquent6
supertest6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
nelmio/alice
Mar 2014 - Sep 2016
Expressive fixtures generator
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 147 commits, 36 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily focused on refactoring the fixture generator. Their work involved creating and modifying methods within the base and Yaml loaders, specifically addressing the parsing of files and instance creation. These changes simplified the base load, making it easier to override for various projects. They also created an Instance class and Collection class to better manage references, and implemented several methods to the classes, and moved methods to improve readability, and the architecture of the system.
manage-fixturesfactoryfixturephpsymfony-bundle
tshelburne/type-presets
Jan 2021 - Feb 2021
Contributions:41 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
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