Tim Stephenson
Founder at KnowProcess
Swindon, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorTim Stephenson is a founder and digital leader with 13+ years delivering business process automation, cloud-native backend services and sustainability-focused software for UK government, FTSE 100 firms and scaling startups. He combines hands-on engineering (security-cleared work on cloud microservices) with product and practice leadership, founding KnowProcess and directing sustainability product work at Trakeo. Deep BPM/DMN expertise is backed by notable open-source contributions to Activiti/Flowable and Spring Roo where he improved JSON handling, templated email and multitenancy features for workflow engines. Goal-oriented and pragmatic, he excels at forming teams, initiating SaaS products and turning complex process requirements into automated, auditable solutions. An often-overlooked strength is his long-standing role in standards and interchange efforts (BPMN/BPSim), which informs his ability to build interoperable process ecosystems.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
English, French
Github Skills (23)
json10
api-rest10
spring10
api-design10
restful-api10
workflow-engine10
business-process-management10
java10
javas10
bpmn10
spring-boot10
rest-api10
activiti10
send-email9
addin9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
flowable/flowable-engine
Dec 2016 - Jan 2022
A compact and highly efficient workflow and Business Process Management (BPM) platform for developers, system admins and business users.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 13 PRs, 30 comments in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Flowable engine, focusing on mail functionality and task assignment enhancements. They added support for variable-templated emails, allowing dynamic content injection, and implemented multi-tenant mail server configurations. Furthermore, they made improvements to resource assignment, and corrected API tags and content types related to forms. Their contributions are focused on improving the workflow engine's features and its deployment capabilities.
business-process-managementcompactprocess-managementworkflow-enginebpmn
Activiti/Activiti
Jan 2014 - Sep 2015
Activiti is a light-weight workflow and Business Process Management (BPM) Platform targeted at business people, developers and system admins. Its core is a super-fast and rock-solid BPMN 2 process engine for Java. It's open-source and distributed under the Apache license. Activiti runs in any Java application, on a server, on a cluster or in the cloud. It integrates perfectly with Spring, it is extremely lightweight and based on simple concepts.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Tim focused on improving the Activiti BPM platform by implementing and enhancing features related to email notifications and resource assignment. They addressed issues with mail template injection, allowing for dynamic content. Additionally, they added support for assigning tasks to groups defined outside the process and fixed multitenant mail server configuration. These changes involved modifications to core engine behavior and converter logic, improving the platform's flexibility and integration capabilities.
business-process-managementprocess-managementactivition-serverjava-application
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