Timothy Fitz is a seasoned software consultant and technical leader with 16 years of experience helping organizations improve reliability, delivery and team dynamics at the intersection of DevOps/SRE and product engineering. He builds and teaches practical Continuous Deployment workshops, coaches teams to confront deep communication and process issues, and has repeatedly acted as a hands-on implementer and technical lead for clients like Cisco, Twilio and WNYC. A polyglot coder who can't resist shipping, he has built games, high-scale web services and big data pipelines and led end-to-end platform efforts as a CTO and technical lead. He also contributes to open-source testing tooling—most notably improving aiomysql’s test suite to reproduce and fix connection-reuse bugs—bringing a pragmatic quality-engineering mindset to distributed systems. Based in New York, he combines coaching, architecture and execution to help teams move faster and safer.
16 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
aiomysql is a library for accessing a MySQL database from the asyncio
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Timothy's contributions focused on improving the test suite for the aiomysql library. They added a new failing test to reproduce connection issues and subsequently fixed the underlying problem by preventing connection reuse in certain error scenarios. They also more accurately simulated connection loss within the testing framework. Finally, they made style fixes within the test files.
Contributions:8 commits, 2 pushes in 4 years 6 months
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