Jim Moffitt
Longmont, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJim Moffitt is a Developer Advocate who blends an M.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering with a decade of hands-on software experience building real-time data systems and APIs. He currently helps developers design low-latency, high-concurrency APIs at Tinybird after a long tenure at Twitter where he worked as a staff partner engineer and contributed Ruby and Java sample code for the Twitter API v2. Jim’s background includes developing flood early-warning software, demonstrating a rare mix of environmental domain expertise and scalable engineering. Based in Longmont, Colorado, he’s known for turning complex real-time data requirements into practical developer-facing solutions.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, B.S., Mechanical Engineering at University of MinnesotaM.S., Civil & Environmental Engineering, M.S., Civil & Environmental Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
Spanish
Stackoverflow
46reputation
230reached
2answers
0questions
Github Skills (13)
twitter-api10
ruby10
api-design9
api9
apim9
java7
javas7
gnip6
twitter6
curl6
python6
webhooks6
nodejs4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
xdevplatform/Twitter-API-v2-sample-code
Aug 2020 - Nov 2022
Sample code for the Twitter API v2 endpoints
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jim primarily contributed to the Ruby sample code for the Twitter API v2 endpoints. Their commits focused on updating existing Ruby files, specifically `user-mentions.rb` and `user-tweets.rb`, suggesting a focus on API interaction logic and data retrieval. Additionally, the user worked on adding code to fetch a reverse chron home timeline in Java using the SDK, demonstrating familiarity with Twitter API integration across multiple languages. Several commits involved removing abandoned client IDs and updating client information in various Python scripts related to direct messages.
apipythonjavascriptendpointsruby
jimmoffitt/SocialFlood
Mar 2015 - Jun 2020
Contributions:169 commits, 140 pushes in 5 years 3 months
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