# Tim Bly

> Principal Software Engineer at CU Direct

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/timbly

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Origence
Jan 2021 – Present
- Assembled and lead a lean 4 person team and produced detailed tech stories with complete scope for enhancements to SaaS platform 
- Served as a subject matter expert/liaison for 2 other teams 
- Assessed and improved performance of newly cloud native SaaS platform to process 4x the amount of data per day in the cloud, as compared to on premises
- Reduced cloud costs of SaaS platform by over $50k per month through assessments, recommendations, implementations and migrations to different cloud products
- Took ownership and completed implementation of CI/CD pipelines and deployments for SaaS platform and assisted in optimizing CI/CD pipelines in other projects across the org 
- Optimized SaaS platform, crushed many tech debt initiatives and lead implementation effort on many long awaited feature enhancements

### Software Developer II @ CU Direct
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
- Proposed portions of and lead implementation efforts to segment and migrate monolith Marketing Automation SaaS platform to the cloud, while leveraging high reward cloud native architectures where feasible
- Quickly adapted to ever changing cloud landscape and provided results to VP of Engineering by busting through blockers or non-starters with agile research, proposals of options and quick implementations of chosen PoCs
- Minimized risk and provided a seamless client experience during migration by taking a pragmatic approach on a client by client basis
- Rearchitected portions of on premises Windows VM based platform to enable migration to Azure Kubernetes Service with Linux pods 
- Restructured queries across platform to enable migration to Azure SQL from MS SQL Server

### Software Developer @ Intuvo
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018
- Quickly learned and became proficient in new programming languages to provide immediate value to a  small development team with a startup mindset
- Assisted with front end AngularJS development
- Implemented various 3rd party back end API integrations
- Proposed and implemented back end portions of feature enhancements for SaaS CRM platform
- Utilized partial high level support role to enhance troubleshooting abilities and attain ability to foresee potential issues or limitations with current projects


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Software Engineering
San José State University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tim-bly-623780177

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Last updated: 2026-04-12