Timothy Beamish
Principle Engineer at Thinkific
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolTimothy Beamish is a Principal Engineer and web architect based in Vancouver, bringing over two decades of hands-on experience building high-traffic web platforms and leading engineering teams. He combines full-stack expertise—from React/TypeScript and Node to Python backends and RAG-based generative AI—to deliver products that accelerate research and business outcomes, most recently driving generative-AI tooling for online learning at Thinkific. Previously he led web teams at Plenty of Fish, shipping the company’s first responsive mobile platform and revenue-driving features at scale, and at BenchSci he built prompt-optimization and self-evaluating report-generation systems that measurably improved LLM accuracy for scientists. A pragmatic technologist and founder, he has deep operational experience (cloud, caching, analytics) and a knack for turning complex workflows into conversational AI assistants. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from UBC and often blends research-grade techniques with production engineering to shorten time-to-insight.
4 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at The University of British ColumbiaBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Acadia University
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Github Skills (24)
vector-database10
llm10
fine-tuning10
data-structures10
gpt10
application10
predict9
retrieval7
html6
nlp6
code-splitting6
breakpoints6
react6
flexbox6
natural-language-processing6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jpmartinez/plop-generator
Dec 2021 - Jul 2024
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 2 years 8 months
tbeamish-benchsci/llama_index
Feb 2024 - Mar 2024
LlamaIndex (formerly GPT Index) is a data framework for your LLM applications
Contributions:22 pushes, 4 branches in 19 days
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