Tim Schilling

You need stuff built, and I’m here to make it happen. I’ve been helping small businesses and individuals since 2012. Regardless of the size and scope of your project, I’ll provide you with quality work and clear, honest, and timely feedback. If you don’t consider yourself a technical person, that’s okay. I’ll be your technical sounding board, informing you on what is possible as well as showing you other opportunities.

Community involvements

This is a list of my formal involvements within the open source community.

• DjangoCon US 2024 speaker - You got that nice tech salary, now what?
• Google Summer of Code 2024 mentor - Add Async Support to Django Debug Toolbar
• Django Commons administrator 2024 to present
• Djangonaut Space Session 1 Navigator
• Django Discord moderator 2023
• DEFNA Secretary 2023 to present
• DEFNA Director 2023 to present
• DjangoCon US organizer 2023 to present
• Djangonaut Space Organizer 2023 to present
• DjangoCon US 2022 tutorial presenter - “It doesn’t work” - A Djangonaut’s debugging tool kit
• Underdog Devs - Project Underdog mentor 2021 - 2023

Packages

This is a list of packages I help maintain. Some I’m more involved with than others.

• django-debug-toolbar
• django-simple-history
• django-safemigrate
• django-auth-adfs
• debug-tutorial

Paid ventures

Below you can find a brief overview of a few projects I was/am paid to work on.

AspirEDU

AspirEDU identifies at-risk students and provides an easy-to-use dashboard with student ratings. I lead the development team, working on a variety of projects from producing new features, managing performance, cleaning up technical debt, and clearing the way for the team to improve.

Giftovus

Giftovus provides a simple way to let those close to you know what you are up to and get their inside tips, help, or thoughts. As a part of the project, I translated voice of the customer stories into specifications and the eventual product on both the back-end and frontend. Giftovus is a full-featured social network and as such, the notifications, including emails, activity alerts, content in the user’s feed, and push notifications were specified and engineered by myself. I also incorporated background processing and live updates to maintain responsiveness to the user.

StoneRidge Piggly Wiggly

StoneRidge Piggly Wiggly is a one-stop shop for Wisconsin’s best specialty meats and cheeses. I was contracted to build an e-commerce site, involving integrations with Stripe for order processing and FedEx for shipping. One of the trickiest parts of the entire project was debugging problems with the thermal printer remotely!

Book Your Look

Book Your Look® is an online platform allowing people to find and book appointments with a curated list of hair stylists and make-up artists. I built an integration with Stripe to handle the credit card charges and payments to artists. In addition to this, there is also an integration to Google Calendar to avoid appointment conflicts for artists.