# Timothy Tamm > Sr. engineer @ Databricks. Ex-Palantir Location: Seattle, Washington, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/timothytamm I am a Software Engineer, currently working at Palantir Technologies. My passions lie in leading teams, systems and robotics. ## Work Experience ### Sr. Software Engineer @ Databricks Jan 2024 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States Working in the Notebook Dataplane team ### Software Engineer @ Palantir Technologies Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Seattle, Washington, United States - End to end delivery of customer facing features for multiple applications in the Palantir Foundry ecosystem from ideation to implementation and support using Typescript, React and Java. - Came up with and implemented two hackathon projects that became parts of the core product and resulted in pending patents and attention from the COO / CTO. - Technical lead for the Foundry Dynamic Scheduling Primitive. Designed and built core parts of the Primitive and related applications. Led and mentored a team of 3 other engineers working on the application. The product was rolled out to 75+ customers within the first year. - Conducted over 200 technical and behavioral interviews and helped significantly scale up Palantir's interviewing capacity by ramping up and mentoring new interviewers as well as helping develop a new technical facet. - Mentored new-hire onboarding projects. ### Forward Deployed Software Engineer - Tech Lead @ Palantir Technologies Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington - Ran multiple large-scale infrastructure migrations for various Palantir Foundry deployments and products. - Delivered a low-latency streaming data ingestion pipeline for Scuderia Ferrari. - Delivered multiple key features for a bespoke customer application that were critical for securing a large contract extension. - Systematically deprecated legacy custom applications and migrated associated workflows across the Palantir Foundry fleet to reduce tech debt and unlock critical upgrade paths. ### Forward Deployed Software Engineer @ Palantir Technologies Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Seattle, Washington Engaged with customer stakeholders to design and implement workflow solutions. Built data pipelines, custom applications and plugins to power customer workflows. Worked with customer IT teams to hand over pipeline and use case maintenance. ### Head Of Engineering @ DEV: A Harvard Student Agency Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Cambridge, Massachussets Head of Engineering at HSA DEV - a student run dev shop with a 100% year to year revenue growth. I was the head of a team of about 30 engineers. My tasks included implementing best practicies and making sure that all of our projects were on track and being executed well. ### Teaching Fellow @ Harvard University Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Cambridge, MA During the fall semester of the 2015/2016 school year, I worked as a teaching Fellow for the class CS50 (Introduction to Computer Science I). My responsibilities were grading problem sets, teaching a 90 minute weekly section to around 20 students and grading midterm exams. During the spring semester of the same school year, I worked as a Teaching Fellow for the class ES51 (Computer Aided Machine Design). I had to staff 2 weekly labs, during which I had to teach the students how to use the labs' machines (Drill presses, band saws, 3D printers, Laser Cutters, etc.) and basic manufacturing techniques. Additionally I gave them advice and guidance on their robot designs. In the 2016/2017 school year, I once again worked as a teaching fellow for CS50 in the fall and I was a lab monitor for ESS51 in the spring. In the 2017/2018 school year, I was a teaching fellow for CS61 - Systems programming and Machine Organization in the fall. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Microsoft Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Redmond, Wa Worked in the Azure Networking inter-datacenter team on a project with the goal of automating firmware updates on network devices. ### Engineering Intern @ TransferWise Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | London I worked in the Business product team. During my internship, I worked mostly on TransferWise's new MassPay feature that allows the user to set up a large amount of transfers through a file upload or a simplified online input flow. I first developed an alpha version using a NodeJS backend and AngularJS frontend. After going through user testing sessions and a limited release, I helped develop the next version of the tool by building a new sleeker frontend and implementing some of the new backend services and API endpoints that the new frontend relied on. The frontend was once again built using AngularJS and written in ES6, HTML5 and CSS3, but this time with great emphasis on componentization and reusability. The frontend also used Karma testing, Gulp, Babel and Webpack, npm and bootstrap. The backend was written in Grails. Besides MassPay, I fixed numerous small bugs and added other smaller new features. ### Engineering Intern @ TransferWise Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Tallinn, Estonia I worked in the USD engineering team. My tasks included front and back end development in grails, groovy and angular JS as well as data analysis. An example of my duties at Transferwise is analyzing how transfers from the US flowed through the system to find inefficiencies and then coming up with a solution for fixing the issue. I also developed interactive and dynamic landing page blocks for transferwise’s US landing page, such as a “transfermap”, which queries the database for recent transactions and shows where they were made and how much money was saved. ### Member of the Board @ NGO Praktikum Estonia Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Tallinn Mediate secondary school student externships to the strongest enterprises and institutions in Estonia. I was in charge of communicating with companies and securing internships positions. I also managed our public relations a bit by getting us interviews on a national morning TV show (Terevisioon) and a radio show. ### Science Editor @ Teadusmosaiik Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Tartu, Estonia Developing science and engineering based tasks for the Science competition TV show Rakett 69. I had to come up with tasks for the show, figure out how to make them manageable for the competitors and make them look cool on TV. For each of the tasks I had to gather the necessary inventory, build any required props and finally test their viability. ## Education ### A.B in Cum Laude in Computer Science, Computer Science with a secondary in Mathematical Sciences Harvard University Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 ### Gustav Adolfi Gümnaasium Jan 2008 – Jan 2014 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/timothy-tamm - Website: http://harvardrobotics.com - GitHub: https://github.com/thctamm/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/timothytamm JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/timothytamm/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22