Timothy Klein
Lead Software Engineer at Clarivate
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolTimothy Klein is a Lead Software Engineer in Philadelphia with a decade of experience delivering full-stack and microservice-based web applications across managed and cloud infrastructure. He blends self-taught curiosity with formal engineering discipline, specializing in Python, rapid prototyping, programming specification design, and thorough technical documentation. At Clarivate he shapes architecture and coding standards for complex systems while mentoring teams and driving automation and test coverage. His open-source contributions to the Django-focused model-bakery project show a practical attention to developer ergonomics—adding string sequence suffixes, callable defaults, tests, and improved PostGIS test tooling. Known for a data-driven, detail-oriented approach, he excels at translating ambiguous business needs into maintainable, production-ready solutions. Outside core engineering, his background ranges from mechanical engineering studies to hands-on DevOps work, giving him a systems-minded perspective.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering at Drexel UniversityMath and Science, Math and Science at Upper Dublin High School
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Github Skills (15)
unit-testing10
pytest10
unit-test10
python10
django10
postgresql9
background-image9
documentation8
database-design8
html6
css6
nodejs6
javascript6
amazon-web-services6
angular6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
model-bakers/model_bakery
Oct 2020 - Oct 2022
Object factory for Django
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:47 reviews, 9 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Timothy primarily contributed to the `model-bakery` project, focusing on enhancing the `seq` function within the recipe system. They implemented a new `suffix` keyword argument for string sequences, added unit tests to validate the new functionality, and updated documentation. Additional contributions include supporting callable defaults and always using the default value if present. They also added instructions and scripts for running PostGIS tests and made various code improvements and bug fixes.
djangopythonfixturesfactoryobject-factory
timjklein36/mallratz
Aug 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:92 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 4 months
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