Tim Deeb-swihart
Senior Software Design Engineer - OSS at Temporal Technologies
United States
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Top SchoolTim Deeb-swihart is a senior software design engineer with 10 years of experience building high-performance distributed systems and open-source back-end services, currently contributing to the Temporal workflow service. He blends low-level C systems work (MariaDB Xpand cloud backup and parallel replication) with Go-focused service optimization—recent contributions to Temporal include upgrading the repo to Go 1.21 and improving error handling and task-ack performance. At Bishop Fox he drove multi-thousand-percent throughput gains and cut AWS costs and weekend on-call time substantially, and earlier research roles at Cisco and Georgia Tech produced tooling for large-scale ML experiments and a patent. He brings a reliability- and observability-first mindset, strong security chops, and a track record of turning hard engineering problems into measurable production wins.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Highest Honors, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Highest Honors at College of Computing at Georgia TechMaster of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (18)
microservices-application10
distributed-systems10
workflow-engine10
go10
distributed-system10
error-handling10
microservices10
amazon-elasticsearch9
testing9
elasticsearch89
elasticsearch79
elasticsearchapi9
elasticsearch29
aws-elasticsearch9
elasticsearchquery9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
temporalio/temporal
Oct 2020 - Mar 2025
Temporal service
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 519 reviews, 112 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the Temporal service, focusing on improving the system's internal workings. They made changes to the environment variable setup, bumped the Go version to 1.21 to support the `log/slog` package, and improved error handling for HTTP 400 errors from Elasticsearch. Furthermore, they worked on fixing ordering bugs in matching behavior tests and refactored code related to DLQ handling, and also improved performance by optimizing the ackManager and the logic for terminal task errors.
service-busmicroservice-orchestrationworkflow-automationworkflow-enginedocker
BishopFox/aws-signing
Jun 2020 - May 2021
CLI that allows user to submit http requests using AWS request signing
Contributions:2 releases, 8 commits, 2 PRs in 11 months
http-requestsrequest-signingsigningsubmitrequest
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