Timothy Parrish
Software Engineer at Lawrence University
Livingston, Montana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTimothy Parrish is a software engineer and data analyst with 10 years of hands-on experience building and testing both front-end and back-end systems, now pursuing a BS in Computer Science at Montana State University. He brings a practical troubleshooting mindset honed at Geek Squad and applies it to reliable, test-driven development, including significant QA and test automation contributions to the widely used wolfSSL TLS library. Comfortable across CISCO networking, business management, and software development, he thrives in collaborative teams where shared learning accelerates results. Timothy has a user-focused approach—often stepping into the end-user’s shoes to drive better design and testing—and maintains an active portfolio and GitHub showcasing projects that span home automation inspirations to cryptographic test work. Based in Livingston, Montana, he blends curiosity-driven side projects with disciplined engineering to deliver pragmatic, quality software.
10 years of coding experience
Associate of Applied Science, Computer Information Systems, Associate of Applied Science, Computer Information Systems at Community College of AuroraBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Montana State University-Bozeman
Github Skills (14)
c1710
libtls10
mtls10
ssl10
c-library10
tls1210
c1110
tls1310
cryptography10
api-testing10
testing10
dtls9
sys9
embedded9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wolfSSL/wolfssl
May 2018 - Jun 2018
The wolfSSL library is a small, fast, portable implementation of TLS/SSL for embedded devices to the cloud. wolfSSL supports up to TLS 1.3 and DTLS 1.3!
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits, 6 PRs, 17 comments in 21 days
Contributions summary:Timothy's primary contribution involves implementing and expanding unit tests within the wolfSSL library. Their work includes adding new test cases for API functions, specifically focusing on cryptographic operations such as PKCS7 encoding/decoding, hashing algorithms (MD5, SHA, etc.), and CMAC. They also refactored existing test code for better organization and clarity. Through these commits, the user contributes to the overall quality and reliability of the wolfSSL library, ensuring proper functionality across supported cryptographic features.
trusted-execution-environmentdata-storageopenssl-apiwolfsslfhe
TimParrish/legacy_website
Aug 2019 - Aug 2023
The first website I built freshmen year of college using HTML/CSS
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 11 months
cssjavascriptcss3html5first-website
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