Timothy Briggs
Staff Software Engineer at Marqeta
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTimothy Briggs is a Staff Software Engineer based in Greater Boston with 11 years of experience building resilient, production-grade systems across fintech, mobility, and networking. He leads cross-functional teams at Marqeta delivering scalable banking and money-movement solutions—covering ACH, bill pay, cash loads, and complex API/file-transfer integrations with banks and card networks. His background includes designing microservices, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud deployments (GCP), and he has a track record of improving test coverage and operational reliability. Earlier work in networking and SDN at Metaswitch and open-source contributions to the widely used Calico project show a strong grounding in low-level networking, security configuration, and DevOps. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who bridges product needs and platform engineering, shipping features while keeping systems auditable and resilient. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Northeastern and pairs hands-on coding with team leadership to tackle domain-specific challenges in regulated environments.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science and Multimedia, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science and Multimedia at Northeastern University
Github Skills (12)
docker10
python10
dockers10
calico10
networking9
devops9
cli9
command-line9
command-line-interface9
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
go3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
projectcalico/calicoctl
Jun 2015 - May 2016
Calico CLI tool
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 releases, 146 commits, 198 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Timothy contributed to the `calicoctl` CLI tool by implementing new features related to ICMP type and code validation and modifying existing functionality. They made changes to the datastore adapter, adding support for ICMP code, suggesting contributions toward networking and security configuration. The user also updated the tool by merging upstream changes and correcting command line arguments for various commands. The commits also include updates for the calico node and libnetwork images and the fix of docker deprecated commands.
calicocli-toolcli
TrimBiggs/calico-containers
Jul 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 400 pushes in 10 months
calicodocker
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