# Timothy Josefik

> Senior Software Engineer at Buildout

Location: Greater Chicago Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/timothyjosefik

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Buildout
Jan 2022 – Present
- Developed Buildout's mobile app in React Native
- Integrated Stripe to launch e-commerce plans within Prospect by Buildout
- Aggregated property and ownership data from multiple data sources
- Built the Rethink+ integration, connecting Prospect by Buildout to the Rethink Salesforce platform
- Mentored engineers on career development and best practices

### Founder @ Gamer Stonks, LLC
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
GamerStonks was a Saas platform aggregating data around the graded video game market. 
This included:
- Sales data from various auction sites
- Variant info on games
- Population reports on the different grading companies

### Senior Software Engineer @ Vibes
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Chicago, Il
- Part of the Wallet team integrating with Apple and Google to allow users to install loyalty, offer, and event tickets passes on their devices
- Migrated from bare metal to AWS cloudformation and then to pure terraform created resources
- Maintained a healthy balance of security remediations, tech debt fixes, and new features
- Mentored new engineers onto the team as well as junior engineers in the company
- Developed small application that would ping each team with open merge requests as a daily reminder
- Helped create a set of standards and processes that led to one of the most performant teams in the company
- Led an initiative with my team to upgrade our apps from Rails 4 to Rails 5.2

### Software Engineer @ Vibes
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Chicago, Illinois, United States

### Software Engineer @ CDK Global
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
I worked on the Cloud Platform team developing plugins to help other teams follow the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipeline more easily. I also helped create and manage kubernetes clusters in AWS and on-premise data centers.

### Teaching Assistant @ University of Illinois at Chicago
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
Assist students in learning the foundations of programming

### Software Engineer Intern @ CDK Global
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Hoffman Estates, IL

### Sales Consultant @ Best Buy
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014
Assisted customers in finding the perfect solution for the entertainment room.
Helped customers obtain the perfect office set up for what they required

### QA tester @ Phosphor Games Studio
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Tested multiple video games for bugs
     -Including Technical, Visual, and story based bugs
Documented each step of how the bug was discovered
Retested after said bugs were listed as fixed


## Education
### Computer Science
University of Illinois Chicago
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016

### Associate's Degree in Computer Science
Triton College
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/timothy-josefik-088576b0
- GitHub: https://github.com/timothyjosefik
- Website: https://timjosefik.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-22