Timothy Bishop
Lead Software Engineer - Generative AI
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTimothy Bishop is a lead software engineer specializing in generative AI and healthcare software, bringing over 20 years of deep Java expertise to regulated clinical and drug-development environments. He combines hands-on engineering, team leadership, and Agile delivery to build cloud-native services for clinical trial matching, treatment recommendation engines, and analytics used by organizations like Mayo Clinic and Pfizer. A prolific problem-solver, he’s an inventor on 14+ software patents tied to healthcare data processing and has extensive Level 3 customer support experience in HIPAA-regulated contexts. At IBM he led cross-functional teams on Watson health initiatives, contributing both backend pipelines and CI/CD-enabled REST services that scaled clinical cohort and predictive analytics workloads. He is also an active contributor to Open Liberty testing and QA efforts, improving JDBC test coverage for a widely used open-source application server. With a BA in Computer Science (and a minor in Music), he pairs technical rigor with creative thinking to deliver auditable, production-ready solutions.
5 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Major in Computer Science and Minor in Music, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Major in Computer Science and Minor in Music at Luther CollegeHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Decorah High School
Github Skills (13)
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junit10
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database-testing10
jdbc10
openliberty10
java10
testing10
webapp9
web-testing9
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webtest9
jakartaee9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
OpenLiberty/open-liberty
Apr 2022 - Oct 2022
Open Liberty is a highly composable, fast to start, dynamic application server runtime environment
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:80 reviews, 25 commits, 40 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Timothy primarily focused on testing and quality assurance within the Open Liberty project, specifically targeting JDBC functionality. Their work involved writing and modifying tests for thread-local storage connections and other database interactions within the BasicTestServlet, as indicated by the code changes in BasicTestServlet.java and the test runs executed within the JDBC41Test class. The contributions include fixing and adding new tests, and updating tests for functionality related to connections. The user also refactored and updated the tests, improving the test coverage for the JDBC feature and ensuring the Open Liberty's adherence to the JDBC standard.
open-libertyruntimelibertycomposableruntime-environment
tabishop/open-liberty
Mar 2022 - Apr 2023
Open Liberty is a highly composable, fast to start, dynamic application server runtime environment
Contributions:51 pushes, 31 branches in 1 year
open-libertyruntimelibertycomposableruntime-environment
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