# Tim R.

> Engineering Servant Leader | Focused on building observable, scalable web applications

Location: Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/timr

Technical Lead that checks the ego at the door in order to ship features, drive key metrics, and deliver in a pragmatic, customer-centric way. Has a heart for leveling up others through Servant Leadership. Also trying to get that runner’s heart back after years of laziness.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Atomic Canyon
Jan 2024 – Present
Tech Lead for the UI efforts to help leverage AI and RAG in the nuclear energy sector. Responsible for building a 0-to-1 product in React.

Designed and developed custom API in Node to allow clients to receive structured messages during an LLM flow in order to simplify AI powered features.

### Founder @ McK-P
Jan 2012 – Present
Software consultancy for building custom web applications and software solutions to your industry problems

### Senior Software Engineer @ Flock Safety
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024

### Software Engineering Manager @ Hopin
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023

### Staff Software Engineer @ Hopin
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
Used Lambda@Edge and Cloudfront to serve HLS VODs, MP4s, and VTTs with minimal latency at the edge with authentication and authorization built in.

Built edge authentication service to guard user media assets from unauthorized download 


Used Protobuf to build microservices in Node, shipping to Kubernetes, with RabbitMQ as the message queue. 

Implemented observable services using logs, distributed tracing,  and feature flags, utilizing Datadog and LaunchDarkly

### Technical Lead @ Hopin
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
- Made technical choices and lead implementation on custom tooling, internal dashboards, and metrics
- Designed a custom ETL pipeline of microservices in Node to unlock machine learning applications and increase speed of development for new features. Collaborated across teams and the organization as a whole, from Product and Execs to feature requirements from other teams. Developed framework and tooling for the team

### Software Engineer @ Hopin
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Worked with team of 8 to build in-house solutions for 3rd party providers

Worked on service that mixed different audio/video files together using FFMPEG and forwarded them to an Origin server, serving out HLS segments to an Edge CDN.

Designed, developed, and deployed a RESTful interface over Livestream objects, handling webhooks, async workers, PubSub and Queues using Redis, and OpenAPI/Swagger for documentation. Sent metrics to Datadog and used PagerDuty and Alerts from Datadog to ensure uptime of 99.99%

Built custom server framework to build out RESTful routes using YAML and exporting custom made OpenAPI/Slate docs.

### Software Engineer @ Storyscript
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020

### Staff Software Engineer @ CircleCI
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California
Spearheaded efforts on GraphQL API Gateway from ADR to implementation
Team Lead for GitHub Checks integration, serving ~1k teams within weeks of launch
Led Agile ceremonies and worked in tandem with Product to keep JIRA/Kanban board up to date and reflective of OKRs
Built new platform UI/UX using Next.JS, Typescript, and Apollo/GQL decreasing the amount of time it takes engineers to debug failing workflows/jobs and increasing the NPS scores

### JavaScript Engineer @ 360 View
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Nashville Area, TN
* Built UI for Financial CRM platform integrating with .Net APIs in Typescript
* Mentored team on Test Driven Development, Functional Programming, and component/system architecture
* Used AngularJS to create dynamic user experiences using Material Design spec
* Developed Office 360 Add-In to sync Outlook/Calendar with CRM application

### Full Stack Engineer @ Kofile Technologies
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Developed E-Commerce application for County Governments to sell public records that was Section 508 compliant in accordance to state and federal regulation

Mentored other software engineers on Functional Programming, React/Redux, Nginx, and microservice design/implementation using Pair Coding, Code Review, and 1-on-1 coaching sessions

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### Lead JavaScript Engineer @ Knoxweb
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Knoxville, Tennessee Area
Leveraging the WordPress WP_REST API, designed, developed, and deployed SPAs for E-Commerce applications, Live-Updating messaging systems, and social networking services

Built custom WordPress plugin in PHP7 for rating system on Advanced Custom Post types, increasing user engagement on the site by 85%


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/beardedtim
- GitHub: https://github.com/beardedtim
- Website: https://mck-p.com

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Source: https://flows.cv/timr
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/timr/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22