Résumé
I’m Tim Stewart. I got my B.S. in Computer Science last year, and I’m currently looking for work as a junior software engineer.
Portfolio
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Timbo’s “Hacker News” Reader (thnr.net, about page, GH repo) is my current showcase project. The backend ingests story feeds from the well-known Hacker News via API and uses Selenium and
requests
to surface additional metadata (such as a thumbnail image, the name of the article’s author, and the article’s estimated reading time) from the linked articles. The program is multithreaded to process articles and pages in parallel usingconcurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor
.
Tech stack: Python, Selenium + chromedriver, Beautiful Soup, requests, boto3 (AWS S3), wand (ImageMagick binding). -
Hayfevr.ly (blog post, repo to come) scrapes the web pages of six local allergy clinics and news stations for pollen count data using Selenium.
Tech stack: Python, Selenium + chromedriver, Beautiful Soup, requests, boto3 (AWS S3), Python-tesseract (pytesseract), MySQL. -
Demo URL shortener using FastAPI (blog post, GH repo). This REST API also provides a secret administrative key that can be used to check stats on the short URL’s usage and delete the short code if desired.
Tech stack: Python, FastAPI, SlowApi (rate limiter), SQLite3. -
One of my two favorite projects for my CS degree was a vehicle-routing problem (VRP) (GH repo, term paper). (My term paper explaining how I solved the problem is in the repo too.)
Tech stack: Python. -
My other favorite project used machine learning on thousands of Wikipedia articles and made the results searchable using point clouds as well as a trie-based search feature (GH repo, term paper). (My term paper explaining how I developed the project is in the repo too.)
Tech stack: Python, keras, matplotlib, numpy, pandas.
Soft Skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills and interpersonal skills
- Very good at working with people to elicit needs, manage expectations, maintain relationships
- Fast learner; committed and conscientious worker; team player
Education
B.S. Computer Science, Western Governors University, 2022
Certifications
AWS CLF-C01 (Cloud Computing Practitioner), expires 12/5/2025. (Val. num.: TTN4JWJ1QBR4QGSH)
Relevant Work Experience
BrightLeaf Group (consulting agency)
Technical Editor. July 2022–present. (part-time contractor)
- Edit highly technical 200-page ISO-compliant technology standards and microchip specifications for grammar, clarity, bias, and technical precision.
- Consistently meet tight deadlines while exceeding customers’ expectations.
- Use industry-standard tools such as git (e.g., pull requests, GitHub Actions, Travis CI), bash scripts, Subversion, and Markdown.
O’Reilly Media (tech book publisher).
Proofreader. December 2022–June 2023. (part-time contractor)
- Proofread and edited upcoming technology books for grammar, clarity, tone, bias, and adherence to publisher’s formatting standards.
- Key titles for which I am credited as proofreader include: PHP Cookbook by Eric A. Mann (2023) ISBN 978-1098121327, The Enterprise Data Catalog by Ole Olesen-Bagneux (2023) ISBN 978-1492098713, Practical Linux System Administration by Ken Hess (2023) ISBN 978-1098109035.