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Hey, I'm Tim.

Engineer at GitHub handling deepest-tier (L3) escalations. I contribute production code to the Rails monolith, build and deploy internal tooling, and turn customer pain into shipped fixes.

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About

What I Do

Engineer with an MSc in Physics and a systems-debugging background. I ship production code, build internal tooling, and reason about security, accessibility, and rollout risk — using AI as a force multiplier, but keeping the judgment my own.

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Production Code

Contributing to github/github, GitHub's Rails monolith — Ruby, ERB, view-model refactors, and test coverage.

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Deep Debugging

Resolving L3 escalations, including production-down debugging of GitHub Enterprise Server.

Internal Tooling

Building and deploying full-stack dashboards and CI/CD automation that scale across the org.

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Security & Accessibility

Driving remediation of production vulnerabilities and building accessible, ARIA-correct UI.

Selected Work

Things I've Shipped

A sample of engineering work — every claim traceable to a real, verifiable link.

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Accessible Permission Consent UI

Authored a production-targeted PR to github/github restructuring the GitHub App permission-consent screen into accessible, resource-grouped sections — view-model refactor, ERB, ARIA semantics, and a feature-flag rollout plan.

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Security Remediation

Identified and drove remediation of a production vulnerability allowing unauthorized access via private GitHub Apps — protecting hundreds of enterprise customers.

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Community Dashboard

Built and deployed a full-stack internal community dashboard (GitHub Pages + OpenAI API) used within the support org.

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GraphQL Scope Mapper

Developing an internal tool that maps GraphQL endpoints to their required permission scopes, cutting investigation time for engineers.

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Monolith Contributions

Merged PRs to github/github improving the Copilot metrics schema and code-scanning API descriptions.

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CI/CD Automation

Implemented a docs-update automation workflow and authored additional CI/workflow automation for support tooling.

Journey

Where I've Been

A snapshot of the path that brought me here.

10/2022 — Now

Support Engineer (L3) — GitHub

Resolving deepest-tier engineering escalations, contributing production code and automation to the monolith, and serving as the GitHub Apps / ecosystem SME in engineering triage.

01/2020 — 09/2022

IT Consultant — Kybeidos, Heidelberg

Led architecture and full implementation of a government-funded IoT platform. Built backend services and data pipelines (Python, Docker) and served as Scrum Team Lead.

2013 — 2019

B.Sc. & M.Sc. Physics — Heidelberg University

Trained in analytical thinking and systems problem-solving at one of Germany's top research universities.

Toolkit

Technologies I Work With

The tools and technologies in my day-to-day.

Python Ruby / Rails ERB SQL GraphQL REST APIs Git & GitHub GitHub Actions GitHub Copilot Docker Kubernetes Linux GCP Accessibility (ARIA) Pandas

Contact

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