I'm Tim Harper. I care deeply about crafting reliable software, specifically systems that can withstand change and handle massive scale.
I've served as CTO for over 2 years at SpinGo, and led the software team to victory, continuously meeting the scaling needs of the organization and keeping services online 99.9% month over month. We grew our APIs to be able to support giants such as CapitalOne and Samsung.
I've helped found several companies, including a predictive analytics company which has since been acquired.
I frequently contribute to open source, speak at conferences, and write around the web.
I use, make and contribute to open source software. Below are some of my projects:
Op-Rabbit is a full-featured, high-level, opinionated messaging library for RabbitMQ, Scala, and Akka.
Op-Rabbit HomeI contributed a fix to resolve a memory leak in the Scala programming language; it was included in Scala 2.11.5.
Scala 2.11.5 AnnouncementA macro-based, extensible, fast library to serialize case-classes to TSV.
Scala-TSV homeI am responsible for the official installer for Git on OS X.
InstallerSlick-PG provides Postgres-specific extensions for Slick, the functional / relational data mapper for Scala.
I've helped improve the library, improving GIS support, and various fixes.
More about Slick Slick-pg Home My contributionsI frequently speak at conferences and local user-groups.
How a message-driven architecture enables resilience, elasticity, and responsiveness.
SlidesIn which I discuss Reactive Streams and the Akka-Stream implementation. In the latter half I demoed an experimental stream-visualizer to illustrate the back-pressure concepts in streams.
I gave this when I was just adopting the Akka-Stream library, and so the slides contain a few errors and I conflated some ideas.
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