G'day! 😁👋

My name's Tim Oliver and I'm a West Australian currently living in Tokyo, Japan. Last year, I worked at Mercari as an iOS Tech Lead, and previously was at Realm as a Cocoa Product Engineer.

I've been a big fan of contributing to open source, and I've been publishing repositories for a lot of the components out my side project apps since 2013. I believe open source improves the speed and quality of software, gives back to the community, and simply helps so many developers in their goals of changing the world faster. 😁

Things I Do

• I really enjoy building my own side-apps. At the moment, I'm focusing on a DRM-free comic reader app.
• Included in that, I enjoy separating out and open sourcing the components I've built in the process for those apps.
• My main open source project is an image cropping library for iOS that ended up powering apps by companies including Google, Sony and Adobe.
• I regularly present at iOS conferences and meetups and have done so around the world in places including Italy, Canada, the USA, Australia, Denmark and Japan.

Why GitHub Sponsors?

I really enjoy releasing my work as open source since it has the opportunity to benefit so many like-minded developers. But that being said, there's certainly a level of overhead involved in running an open source project, and the more popular they become, the harder it is to keep up. 😅

With GitHub Sponsors, this will let me prioritise and invest more of my time to open source and the improvement and expansion of all of my public repos. I would eventually like to be able to dedicate all of my time to doing this sort of stuff, and this is certainly a massive step in that direction. 🙏

Thanks so much for your consideration! Have a good one! 😊✌️