# Tim Ward > Principal Software Engineer @ Tarro Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/timward Experienced software engineer in the Bay Area. Mostly startups, some big companies. Capable of taking teams from day one to production with the right tradeoffs of code quality, sustainability, and speed. I specialize in backend, distributed systems, CI/CD, SRE, and DevX. Mention Monster Energy Drinks in the subject line when contacting me to prove you're not a bot. Bonus points and a guaranteed response if you can tell me what is interesting/remarkable about their business performance. I rarely respond to 3rd party recruiters. ## Work Experience ### Principal Software Engineer @ Tarro Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States I'm helping build a next generation engineering stack for the Restaurant Technology industry. My engineering focus is the FinTech side of our platform: payments, payouts, taxes, reconciliation, reporting, compliance, flow of funds, invoicing, billing, integrated accounting, risk, fraud, all the money related engineering things. ### Staff Engineer @ Grid Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States As backend and product engineering lead for Grid's BoostCard (a debit card that earns points and builds credit) I executed integrations between core services, payment processors, banking providers, card issuers, and credit reporting agencies in order to scale systems to support hundreds of thousands of daily active users. ### Lead Software Engineer @ Grid Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States Moving into Grid's 2nd major product area of personal finance, I led the backend development for payroll and bank account integrations, multiple payments and flow of funds systems, client facing product backends, and risk analysis. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Grid Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States As our tax product lines launched to production, I continued to lead our growing backend product engineering needs, but also added our DevOps, CICD, DevX, and Data Analytics needs to my list of ownership areas. ### Founding Engineer @ Grid Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California, United States In backend engineering, I led the development of almost all backend services, spanning everything from database designs and RPC contracts to product design and internal tooling library code. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Consensus Corporation Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, California, United States In Performance Engineering, I led the development and adoption of our Performance-as-a-Service toolset (Gatling/Scala) for product engineering teams to utilize. I also led the test implementation, execution, analysis, and corrective actions for Black Friday and iPhone Launch in supporting Fortune 10 customers of our distributed AWS platform. ### Software Engineer @ Consensus Corporation Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, California, United States In Platform Engineering, I designed and built a three-database live-to-production CRUD application. It allowed us to retire an expensive and cumbersome ETL as well as replace our existing CRUD application from the legacy PHP stack. In Product Engineering, I worked to keep the legacy PHP monolith working with the new Java microservices as we replaced our product offering with new canonical REST APIs. I also helped design, develop, and implement 9 new Sprint APIs to join our TelCom product offerings for the first time. ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Michigan Technological University Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Houghton, MI Computer Science Fundamentals course lecturer and chief TA, managing 2 other graduate TAs and 18 undergraduate assistants, with ~200 students per semester. ### Education Volunteer, Information Technology and Computer Science @ Peace Corps Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | St. Patrick's College, Ambae, Republic of Vanuatu ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Michigan Technological University Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Houghton, MI Computer Science Fundamentals course lecturer and chief TA, managing 2 other graduate TAs and 18 undergraduate assistants, with ~200 students per semester. ### Software Engineer, Sustainability Solutions @ Autodesk Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area In Autodesk's sustainability solutions team, I designed and built a LEED credits calculator into the industry-leading Revit architecture software as part of a company-wide initiative to kickstart new projects directly from industry. I worked as the sole engineer in a marketing team building tools that were demo'd to named accounts weekly to drive investment. At the conclusion of the initiative, my project achieved a $2 Million investment to build out with a full team, the only project out of 52 to achieve any named-accounts investment at all. ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Michigan Technological University Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Houghton, MI Computer Science Fundamentals course lecturer and chief TA, managing 2 other graduate TAs and 18 undergraduate assistants, with ~200 students per semester. ### Computer Science Learning Center Coach @ Michigan Technological University Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Houghton, MI ### Software Engineering Intern, Research and Development @ Dematic North America Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area ### Software Engineering Intern @ CONSISTACOM INC. Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Houghton, MI ## Education ### Master’s Degree in Computer Science Michigan Technological University ### Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Michigan Technological University ### Study Abroad Kingston University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/timwardmtu --- Source: https://flows.cv/timward JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/timward/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30