Staff software engineer
I bridge business strategy, product vision, and engineering execution. Over the last fifteen years, I've taken products from nothing to production, worked closely with founders and executives, and owned domains across the stack, including infrastructure, backend, frontend, mobile, AI and LLM systems, data, and compliance.
About
Hi, I'm Tim. I picked up coding back in 2011 because I love to build, and I've spent the fifteen years since chasing bigger versions of that.
I started in data. My first eight years were warehouses and pipelines, in consulting and at Microsoft, built for the people who needed the numbers: Marketing, Finance, Sales. Underneath it the job never changed. Sit with someone who knows the business, figure out what they actually need, build the system that gives it to them. In 2017 I built my first product on my own, a text-messaging platform for personal health goals, and learned I'd rather be closer to the thing being built than to the reporting on it.
In 2019 I joined Hone, a live leadership development platform, as the fifth employee, and went into the Series A as the only engineer at the company, owning the application, the infrastructure, and the data by myself. After we raised, I stayed hands-on while building the engineering organization around me: hiring our CTO and Director of Engineering, which put me in the unusual position of interviewing my own future boss, growing engineering into three teams in about six months, and leading the effort that delivered our SOC 2 Type I certification.
At DRINKS, an e-commerce compliance company, the VP of Engineering recruited me as its first staff engineer, a role built around the kind of work I do, owning core platform architecture and technical design across the org. Most recently I built the foundation for a new tax-calculation service, and led the migration of our applications off Heroku onto AWS with zero downtime, cutting their hosting cost by more than 80%.
Alongside that I solo-founded and built Determa, an AI scribe for dermatologists. I took what started as a passion project for my wife (a dermatologist) and grew it into a production-grade, HIPAA-compliant system, then brought it to market with paying customers. I designed the engineering and business processes around agentic workflows from the start. That's what let me single-handedly build a clinical documentation service spanning web, iOS, and Apple Watch.
The work
Projects
Stories from real work. What the project was, why it existed, what was hard, and the impact it had.
The first one is on its way.
System design
Systems I designed and built, with the requirements, the diagrams, and the trade-offs behind the decisions.
The first one is on its way.
Algorithms
LeetCode-style problems solved on camera, with the written solution and the reasoning behind it.
The first one is on its way.
Contact
If you're hiring, interviewing, or want to talk through any of the work here, email me.