Timothy Elliott
Senior Software Engineer at SolarWinds
Sebastopol, California, United States
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Top SchoolTimothy Elliott is a Senior Software Engineer with 17 years of professional experience and over a decade contributing to both open source and enterprise systems. Based in Sebastopol, California, he combines full‑stack web development, systems programming, and backend reliability work, currently delivering at SolarWinds after roles at Loggly and Wanderful Media. He has deep practical experience in memory management and native extensions—most notably fixing memory leaks and buffer overflows in the widely used Nokogiri Ruby library—alongside API, infrastructure automation, and cross‑platform app work. Comfortable across Ruby, Python/Django, Rails, and cloud automation (Ansible, CloudFormation), he ships pragmatic solutions that improve stability and error handling. Known for untangling low‑level bugs and improving HTTP and parsing robustness, he brings a developer’s rigor to production-scale problems.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. in Computer Science, B.S. in Computer Science at California State University, Chico
English, German
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Github Skills (22)
libxml210
debug10
xslt10
memory-management10
http10
c1110
libcurl10
ruby10
c1710
xml10
libxslt10
windows8
networking8
api-design8
babeljs6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
shoes/shoes-deprecated
Dec 2008 - Apr 2009
Former repo for Shoes... see README for up to date locations!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Timothy primarily focused on enhancing the Shoes project's HTTP functionality. Their work included adding support for various download schemes, such as HTTPS, and improving the handling of HTTP requests. They addressed issues related to sending request bodies with the libcurl library. Furthermore, they made modifications to address bugs and inconsistencies in the project's file structure.
shoeslocationsup-to-date
sparklemotion/nokogiri
Feb 2011 - Feb 2014
Nokogiri (鋸) makes it easy and painless to work with XML and HTML from Ruby.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:52 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Timothy primarily focused on identifying and fixing memory leaks and buffer overflows within the Nokogiri C extensions. Their work involved modifying the C code to incorporate error handling, memory management, and buffer boundary checks. Furthermore, they addressed issues related to XSLT parsing, preventing memory leaks and improving error reporting. The contributions also extended to refactoring and bug fixes, ensuring the library's stability and reliability.
libxml2ruby-gemsaxxmllibxslt
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