Tim Tuxworth
Software Engineer
Earth, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarTim Tuxworth is a pragmatic software engineer with 7 years of hands-on experience building reliable systems and documentation, combining solution architecture instincts with developer-level implementation. Based in Texas and known on GitHub as "Tim the Planeman," he contributes to the prominent ArduPilot wiki, improving plane configuration, failsafe guidance, CAN bus setup, and RealFlight simulation docs—bridging niche RC aviation expertise with technical clarity. He excels at turning complex hardware-software interactions into accessible guidance and practical implementations, making him valuable for teams integrating embedded systems and flight control software. Colleagues rely on him for clear technical writing, pragmatic system design, and steady delivery across both code and documentation.
6 years of coding experience
Github Skills (1)
documentation10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ArduPilot/ardupilot_wiki
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Repository for ArduPilot wiki issues and wiki-specific website infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:100 reviews, 17 commits, 31 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributes to the ArduPilot wiki documentation. Their work includes updating existing documentation, adding clarifying notes, and expanding explanations of various features, particularly related to plane configuration, failsafe mechanisms, and RealFlight simulation setup. The user also made revisions to documentation related to CAN bus setup and other hardware configuration details. This suggests a focus on improving the clarity and completeness of the documentation for users of the ArduPilot project.
ardupilotinfrastructuretiddlywiki5autopilotwiki
timtuxworth/ardupilot
Jan 2022 - Mar 2025
ArduPlane, ArduCopter, ArduRover, ArduSub source
Contributions:1 PR, 310 pushes, 39 branches in 3 years 3 months
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