Tim Giles
Software Engineer | TGiles.github.io

Objective

  • Create products that users want and enjoy using.
  • Make applications more accessible by designing and implementing modern software.

Skills

  • Modern front-end development: JavaScript, HTML5, TypeScript, Redux, CSS, SCSS.
  • Automating tedious processes for both business and technical users.
  • Solving the difficult problems that other developers stray from.
  • Full-stack development: Node, C#, Java, Git.
  • Object-oriented, functional, and reactive programming.
  • Collaborator, presenter, servant-leader.

Experience

  • Full Stack Engineer
  • ChartIQ
  • April 2019 - April 2020
Integrated 3rd party components using Finsemble and 3rd party APIs and products. Spear-headed the creation of the trial version of Finsemble by obfuscating and packaging multiple proprietary packages. Rapidly prototyped and productized numerous components for the Finsemble Ecosystem. Developed the Finsemble and Bloomberg integration. Used Node, ES9+, TypeScript, CSS, C#, Webpack, Gulp.
  • Full Stack Developer
  • Silverchair
  • July 2018 - April 2019
Moved from Associate developer to only Full Stack developer in the company within two months. Subject matter expert on Web Accessibility for multiple teams. Used JavaScript, HTML 5, Razor, C#, SCSS, MVC, and other technologies.
Developed modern front end on applications used by the Port of Virginia. Established agile workflow for company. Integrated 3rd party software with our products. Debugged all parts of our software.
  • Graduate Lab Assistant
  • Christopher Newport University
  • Aug. 2016 - Aug. 2017
Instructed students in intermediate Java and OOP concepts.

Education

  • M.S. Computer Science
  • May 2018
  • Christopher Newport University
GPA: 3.90. Thesis: Planning Footsteps of Humanoid Robots. Created configurations for small laboratory robot for Team ViGIR's open source footstep planner. Fixed bugs present in the planner.
  • B.S. Computer Science
  • May 2016
  • Christopher Newport University
GPA: 3.52. Cum Laude. Created data visualization of large dataset. Used JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, Bootstrap3, and D3js.

Leadership

Vice President of Leadership & Development for Pi Lambda Phi at Christopher Newport University for 2015-2016.