Tim Watson
Senior Software Engineer at Wandering Labs
Bend, Oregon, United States
Summary
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SeniorTim Watson is a Senior Software Engineer with 17 years building full-stack web applications, primarily in Ruby on Rails, React, and Node.js. Based in Bend, Oregon, he thrives on small teams and end-to-end ownership—currently shaping the full-stack of a SaaS CRM at PipelineDeals while running his own startup, Wandering Labs, that scrapes campground sites to notify users of openings. His background spans founding and running product businesses, large-scale site consolidations, and designing production infrastructure with AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes. Tim has repeatedly taken sole responsibility for entire technology stacks, shipping features, refactors, and bespoke services for clients and internal products. He combines practical engineering with a maker’s mentality—building monetized software businesses and creative utilities—bringing both entrepreneurial grit and deep Rails/JS craftsmanship. Expect a pragmatic, systems-minded engineer who enjoys solving real-world problems end-to-end.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (56)
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sidekiq9
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scraper8
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nodejs7
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test-runner7
browser7
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tiwatson/watsonswander-live
Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:74 commits, 63 pushes, 5 branches in 11 months
tiwatson/wandering-labs-availability-2
Nov 2015 - Nov 2018
Contributions:165 commits, 19 PRs, 161 pushes in 3 years
scrapesnodejscampgroundreservation
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