Tims Gardner
Chief Executive Officer at Arcadia Technologies
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolTims Gardner is a CEO and systems engineer with 12 years of experience designing and shipping live real-time systems for interactive 3D worlds, and a decade specifically focused on live coding, metaprogramming, and dynamic modification. He founded and leads Arcadia Technologies after a background as a lead instructor at General Assembly and years as a freelance developer, blending hands-on language design with team leadership and business operations. Skilled across Python, Clojure (including ClojureCLR/ClojureScript), C#, Java, and low-level CLR manipulation, he routinely analyzes and intervenes in third-party game codebases with or without source access. An educator at heart, he’s adept at translating advanced language and expressivity concepts to diverse learners while building practical tooling for immersive, moddable worlds. Based in New York, he pairs academic grounding from NYU and Reed College with a rare combination of live-programming craft and executive experience.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Master's degree at New York UniversityBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Reed College
Github Skills (57)
clojure10
boilerplate10
game-development10
foundation9
javascript9
eslint9
webpack9
iron9
react9
scalable8
typescript8
nodejs8
electron7
clr7
template-engine7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
timsgardner/mathematica-clojure-analysis
May 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:20 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year 1 month
timsgardner/scene-var
Dec 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:25 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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