Delivery-focused software engineer with a product mindset — eliciting requirements from ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and turning disagreement into a shared model people can build against. Proven track record of taking charge and filling the gaps when called upon — as an employee, contractor, or interim lead.
Delivered full-stack features across approvals, policy and trip domains; recognized across multiple teams for documentation, mentorship, and knowledge sharing that outlasted team transitions.
Led the design of an integration of two asynchronously-updating trip and approvals surfaces, aligning engineering, product, and UX — the model became the team's reference.
Acted as lead developer of a cross-stack sync service; redesigned autoscaling, cutting infrastructure cost by ~70% while improving reliability.
Provided API integration support to B2B clients and supported the sales team in tailoring the product offering to customer cases.
Wrote and maintained a well-structured and visual API integration guide.
Managed the Vancouver engineering team through an acquisition-related transition, providing stability and clarity in challenging and ambiguous times.
Managed operations and incident response, and acted as Data Protection Officer for ISO/HIPAA compliance.
Tim is a reliable, consistent and highly professional colleague. [...] I saw him take a pragmatic approach and face challenges head-on. Tim is naturally culturally-attuned and has a great sense of fun too.
Tim is a reliable, consistent and highly professional colleague. He is able to offer creative IT solutions and articulate them well to non-technical colleagues. During the time that I worked with him on several complex, cross-functional and cross-border projects I saw him take a pragmatic approach and face challenges head-on. Tim is naturally culturally-attuned and has a great sense of fun too.
Sally PowellGeneral Manager
Tim consistently helped our sales team and external clients understand complex integrations, explaining technical concepts with both patience and clarity.
As VP of Partnerships at PAI Health, I had the opportunity to collaborate with Tim and his team to close deals and find creative solutions to customer needs. Tim consistently helped our sales team and external clients understand complex integrations, explaining technical concepts with both patience and clarity. Tim's problem-solving in relation to resource constraints and technical barriers enabled us to win our largest customers, and his leadership managed to unite cross-border engineering teams through an acquisition to successfully deliver our most important customer projects. Tim is an asset to any team - I always looked forward to working and collaborating with Tim, and I hope we get to work together again in the future!
Kelsey SwanVP Partnerships
Tim is a pragmatic problem solver with extensive technical knowledge and personable management skills.
I had the pleasure of working with Tim while he was both a Senior Software Engineer and the VP of Engineering at PAI Health. Tim is a pragmatic problem solver with extensive technical knowledge and personable management skills. As a Senior QA Analyst and Technical Product Manager, I understand, and heavily value, the ability to communicate complex concepts both verbally and visually. Tim, without question, excels at both and his documentation is absolutely stellar. Any team will benefit from having Tim on board, whether as a manager or as an engineer!
Elicited requirements for a tour operator system by:
extracting data requirements from existing workflow documents
hosting requirements sessions with the business development department
conducting strategic workshops with management
Designed and iteratively built a web-based system supporting procurement, inventory management, product management, sales, and after-sales.
Integrated the system with product database, accounting, and content systems using RPC and event-driven data exchange
Managed the rollout and operations of the business-critical system, including user training and support.
Onboarded four developers to the team, introduced Scrum and defined quality guidelines.
Elicited, prioritized, and specified new user stories as a product owner, creating detailed specifications with clear acceptance criteria and mockups.
Steered cross-team feature development in cooperation with other product owners and engineering managers (the application interfaced with six internal and one external system, managed by four distinct teams).
Maintained detailed wiki-based documentation of the system's data model (>30 entities), architecture, and interfacing systems.
He leads the discovery process by taking complex problems and creating clear visuals to help guide the discussion. [...] I highly recommend Tim for a leadership role in any project that combines difficult technical challenges with a need for clear UI/UX.
Tim is an amazing technologist. He has a fantastic eye for detail, an unparalleled drive to "work things out" and create innovative yet technologically solid solutions that move your project forward. He leads the discovery process by taking complex problems and creating clear visuals to help guide the discussion. He works these out in various technical options and - most importantly - owns the delivery of the technical end product towards a success. I highly recommend Tim for a leadership role in any project that combines difficult technical challenges with a need for clear UI/UX.
Arjan van der MeerCTO
An exceptional Product Owner with exceptionally good technical skills… unlike anything I've seen before.
An exceptional Product owner with exceptionally good technical skills, this is Tim. I had the pleasure to work with Tim for about a year as a member of a small software developer team. During that time he acted as Product Owner and also as Technical Lead/Architect. Earlier Tim had been a developer on the same project so he had a genuine technical overview of the whole system. His Product Owner skills are unlike anything I've seen before. His dedication to the project was remarkable. He was always there to answer our questions, his responses where always precise and to the point and also contained technical insights when necessary. His presentations during our planning meetings were always clear, well prepared and included all details. He is a guy of strong opinions but can be convinced with reasonable arguments. He is also a master of remote meetings. We worked 100% remotely, but our meetings were as intense as if we were sitting in the same room together. Last but not least he paid attention to the personal side of our professional relationship too, he held regular, face to face "talking" meetings, where we talked informally about freely chosen topics we found important. Oh, and did I mention that the guy has a really good sense of humour? His jokes often left a smile on our faces helping to build a friendly atmosphere among ourselves. So, all in all he laid down the strong foundations of our project and although he left the team we still follow his principles to this day. This is the best indication of how serious his contribution was. I think the conclusion is clear enough: He would be an exceptional asset to any company.
Peter NeumannDeveloper
His analytic mindset and clear communication… allowed all stakeholders to align, focus on and successfully reach their goals extremely fast.
I got to know Tim as an incredibly smart, empathetic and reliable colleague who excels at designing and visualizing software solutions. His analytic mindset and clear communication combined with his creativity and passion for creating both effective and visually appealing mockups is impressive - and thus allowed all stakeholders to align, focus on and successfully reach their goals extremely fast.
Simon PrinzHead of Sales Operations
He's pretty good in transforming business processes into software, asking the right questions, user centric design.
Worked together with Tim on an implementation of an individual software. His capabilities are quite rare from my POV and added much value to our project: he's pretty good in transforming business processes into software, asking the right questions, user centric design and additionally he was a good sparings partner from a strategic point of view! Quite a good mix for an IT guy ;-)
Designed and implemented a data scraping system used for automated product categorization.
Facilitated the transition between two CTOs by:
documenting the application landscape
reverse-engineering the backend system in preparation for a complete system redesign (use cases, test cases, technical architecture)
Led the backend team and onboarded six new backend developers.
Co-designed the new backend architecture with the CTO and the development team.
His deep knowledge of how software is created lets him work hands-on, coach and lead teams to build maintainable, scalable systems that match what's needed.
Tim the Timtastic Transformer was a key influence on my understanding of software engineering and architecture. His deep knowledge of how software is created lets him work hands-on, coach and lead teams to build maintainable, scalable systems that match what's needed. I learned a lot from him while working together, hired him at some point and would do so anytime again.
Designed and implemented a full-stack online cruise booking feature with the underlying supplier integration layer, enabling frictionless cruise booking for consumers.
Built a query and booking API used by the existing sales CRM.
Member of the Shared Services team providing tools and services for all projects within the DB Schenker account, including the flagship system TANGO for Air & Ocean Freight Management.
Designed and implemented tools for ticket-system synchronization, model-driven development, and test-case stub generation.
Maintained and extended the UI-test framework running E2E regression tests daily.
Operationally managed a team of six maintaining automation scripts.
