Timid Zehta
Director, Technology at Creative Commons
San Ġwann, Central Region, Malta
Summary
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Top SchoolTimid Zehta is a technology leader with 11 years of hands-on engineering and systems experience, currently serving as Director of Technology at Creative Commons in Malta. He combines people-first management—mentoring contributors, running career development and cultivating psychological safety—with deep practical skills in Python/Django, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud operations. Timid has a strong SRE and automation background from roles managing complex AWS, Docker, Terraform and CI/CD environments, and he champions open source and transparent collaboration both internally and through community programs like GSoC and Outreachy. Notably, he contributes front-end and deployment improvements to high-profile open projects such as the Creative Commons website, showing fluency across UI, backend and ops. Colleagues rely on him for balancing risk management and business continuity with pragmatic engineering and inclusive team culture.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at Sarah Lawrence College
Github Skills (7)
html10
css10
javascript10
lektor9
django9
creative-commons8
open-source8
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
creativecommons/creativecommons.github.io-source
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
Source files for CC Open Source website
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:189 reviews, 345 commits, 293 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Timid primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the project by modifying templates, adding CSS, and integrating JavaScript components. They made changes to the layout of the website by adding various features, including navigation, contributing guidelines, and internship information, using HTML and CSS. Furthermore, the user updated the project dependencies and integrated components for an issue finder. They also added support for Django-based filtering and made updates to the project's build and deployment configurations.
creative-commonslektorjekyllsource-files
creativecommons/wp-theme-cctoolkit
Mar 2019 - Apr 2024
Creative Commons - Business Toolkit WordPress theme
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 10 pushes in 5 years 1 month
commonswordpresswordpress-themebackbonejsstaging
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