Grant Timmerman

About

Hello there! I'm Grant Timmerman, a web entrepreneur and maker. I love making beautiful user experiences and tackling algorithmic challenges.

Experience

Google - Developer Platform Engineer
2017 -
Building awesome developer experiences for Google Cloud Developers. (Node, Apps Script, Python, Go, Java, Ruby, PHP, Ruby)
Sift Science - Software Engineer
2016 - 2017
Innovating the data visualization and machine learning systems of Sift Science. (Java, React, SCSS)
Google - Software Engineer Intern
Summer 2015
Designed and developed an Android device validator that dramatically reduces the number of failed app submission for Android Auto, TV, and Wear. The validator detects common app issues during develop time in Android Studio and submission time in the Play Store. (Java, C++)
Sift Science - Software Engineer Intern
Winter 2015
Built historical Sift scores visualization, feature gating/pricing changes backend and frontend, and redesigned user details page for Sift Science's console. (Java, Maven, HBase, React, SCSS, D3)
LinkedIn - Software Engineer Intern
Summer 2014
Built the server-side infrastructure for internationalizing skills on LinkedIn, allowing recruiters to search for skilled professionals around the world independent of their language. The skills feature affects over 60 million page views per month and 320+ million members. (Java, Kafka, Avro, Pig, MapReduce, Rest.li, Ruby)
Facebook Open Academy - Socket.IO
Jan - June '14
Hand-picked to contribute to Facebook’s open-sourced projects as a part of Facebook’s Open Academy Program. Created Socket.IO's official example app Socket.IO Chat. This example is used to teach newcomers how to use Socket.IO from scratch. Here's a video demo of the app given by Socket.IO's founder Guillermo Rauch. (JS)
Tableau - Software Engineer Intern
Summer 2013
Designed and implemented two flagship features for Tableau’s big data visualization software:
- Fully built transparent objects (e.g. legends, images, text regions) for Tableau’s web visualization engine. Feature shipped and was demoed live in front of 3,000 customers at Tableau’s Customer Conference 2013. Also codeveloped support for high dpi vizes. (Script#)
- Developed Tableau’s #1 customer request JavaScript API feature: the ability to get a viz’s data programmatically (via getUnderlyingDataAsync and getSummaryDataAsync API commands) with the ability to support data cubes. (Script#, Java, C++)
Nor1 - Software Engineer Intern
Summer 2012
Built comprehensive web applications doing both front-end and back-end development:
- Created a spreadsheet-like web application that allows hotel property managers to input current hotel inventory into Nor1’s analytical engine. (CakePHP, JS)
- Built a live data feed web application that processed data from database records and presented the interpreted data in a user-friendly, easy-to-read live feed of real-time data. (CakePHP, JS)
Kongregate - Game Developer
Nov '08 - Nov '11
Developed indie Flash games such as Cellular Warfare and The Four Elements.
(ActionScript, Kongregate API)