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Hi there, I'm Tim!

I spent over a decade working with startups across the US & Europe, helping them execute, develop their vision & grow best-in-class engineering organizations. I have extensive experience leading projects in distributed systems at scale, large-scale native mobile development and mentoring founders and engineers to help them grow & succeed.

I successfully started, grew, and sold a business with over 250M installs and 160M users.

13+

Years in field

350M+

Users amazed

20M+

Funding raised

269

Miles hiked this year

What I do

Engineering Leadership

I help engineering teams prioritize, execute & add value at scale across the full lifecycle.

Sometimes you have to do the right thing, other times you have to do things right. I help teams figure out when.

Distributed Systems at scale

I build distributed systems at scale & have supported use-cases ranging from task systems processing terrabytes of data to real-time systems brokering thousands of requests per second.

I help make complex problems easy.

Mobile Application Development

I have hands-on experience building applications on all major platforms at scale and put an emphasis on tight iteration loops & great developer experience.

I built native mobile applications before it was cool.

Team building

I build best-in-class engineering organizations by hiring high caliber talent, investing into their growth and creating an environment they can thrive in.

I believe in diverse teams & the importance of psychological safety to succeed.

Coaching & Mentorship

I invest in & grow the next generation of founders, engineers & leaders by actively coaching and mentoring them.

Growth comes from within, I foster a growth-mindset in individuals and shape environments that learn and grow intrinsically.

Product & Business Strategy

I help businesses unlock potential by extending my work past engineering, helping shape product strategy and advising on the technological aspects to bring dreams to reality.

Building great products takes a village and I am a cross-functional partner-in-crime.

Education

BA IT-Systems Engineering

Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Berlin, Germany

Awards

30 under 30

Forbes, 2021

Experience

2020 - current

Director of Engineering, Reddit

Working on Consumer & Video products, helping Reddit envision immersive consumer experiences at scale. Grew multiple key consumption metrics by up to 400%, launched multiple 0-to-1 product experiences used by millions across the stack, and managed some of the best-executing engineering teams in the organization.

Led significant technical advancements in mobile architecture, helping to transition from a web-first to mobile-first leadership mindset, and worked directly with systems processing thousands of requests per second.

2014 - 2020

Co-Founder & CTO, Dubsmash (acquired by Reddit)

Led engineering in all aspects for a first-of-its-kind mobile video platform boasting over 250M downloads and over 160M users worldwide, gaining international recognition for our engagement with underrepresented communities online. Heavily involved in product- & business-strategy, attracting investments from top-tier VCs (Index, General Catalyst, Balderton, Eniac, Lowercase, and others).

Built a cloud platform serving billions of videos daily worldwide, distributing & processing petabytes worth of data, and processing thousands of requests per second.

Acquired by Reddit in December 2020.

2009 - 2014

Engineering & Technical Lead, various Startups

Assisted multiple Startups with launching their 0-to-1 projects across the entire project lifecycle. Projects included real-time hardware integrations for the national Swiss Train company, interactive education experiences on tablets, and early- stage creator products.

Hands-on development & architecture in various languages across the stack (Python, PHP, Objective-C, Java, and more), delivering high-quality end-user experiences at scale.