Timothy Lock
Software Engineer at Electronic Arts (EA)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolTimothy Lock is a software engineer with 11 years’ experience building cloud-native, high‑traffic backend systems using Golang, PHP, Kubernetes, and AWS. He modernized large legacy stacks at Wattpad—migrating monoliths to microservices and owning an AI image moderation pipeline that processed millions of images monthly—then drove API gateway, OAuth, and microservice template work at Splash. Currently at Electronic Arts he focuses on Kubernetes operators and CRDs to let game studios consume shared infrastructure, blending platform engineering with developer tooling. An active contributor to backend tooling and test automation (notably improving the go-iap receipt validator’s robustness), he combines pragmatic engineering with a knack for automating reliability and rate-limiting for scalable platforms. Based in Seattle, he brings a product-aware mindset that spans spec, design, and production operations.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Toronto
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Github contributions (5)
awa/go-iap
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
go-iap verifies the purchase receipt via AppStore, GooglePlayStore, AmazonAppStore and Huawei HMS.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits, 7 PRs, 17 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Timothy primarily focused on testing and improving the functionality of the `go-iap` library. They implemented comprehensive tests for the App Store validator, covering various scenarios such as bad payloads, incorrect responses, and redirection to sandbox environments. Furthermore, they refactored the code to enhance test coverage and address potential issues, ultimately improving the reliability and robustness of the library. The changes involved modifying the test suite and server responses for the test cases to work correctly.
googleplaystoreappstorestorekitsubscriptionpurchase-receipt
Timothylock/Pi-Home-Automation
Oct 2015 - Oct 2018
Contributions:40 PRs, 266 pushes, 37 branches in 3 years
raspberry-piraspberryhome-automationdiysystem-monitoring
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