# Tim Watkins

> Full Stack Software Engineer

Location: Asheville, North Carolina, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/timwatkins

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Headstart AI
Jan 2026 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Square
Jan 2024 – Jan 2026

### Full Stack Software Engineer @ Square
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024

### Software Engineer @ Ribbon
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Remote
-Tech Stack: React, Python (Django), GraphQL, PostgreSQL
− Work with project managers and engineering managers to determine project scope and estimate resource requirements in a fast-paced startup environment
− Create features for internal and external facing web applications and contribute components to internal custom component design system
– Tech lead on a cross functional project to automate a repetitive manual task for our operations team. Wrote the tech spec, worked with PM and other stakeholders to determine scope, and implemented frontend and backend code.
– Contributor to a large project to rebuild the frontend UI/UX of Ribbon’s core user flow

### Software Engineer @ Aquent
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Asheville, North Carolina Area
- Worked with a myriad of languages and frameworks including but not limited to Java, Kotlin, Javascript,  Typescript, PostgreSQL, Ruby, Angular, Thymeleaf, HTML, CSS, AngularJS
- Contributed clean, readable, and easily maintainable code
- Created new features, automated tests, and fix production bugs
- Collaborated with product managers and designers to work through ideas and designs for new features and improvements

### Assistant Project Manager @ Dave Steel Company, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Asheville, North Carolina Area
- Assisted Project Managers on multimillion-dollar projects
- Project managed smaller, time-sensitive projects
- Estimated and managed the fulfillment of customer change orders
- Facilitated communication between engineering, production, and field services

### Environmental Scientist @ Alpha Environmental
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Asheville, North Carolina
- Performed wetland delineations on farmland to identify boundaries for development of solar farms
- Conducted endangered species studies to determine if project sites included habitats containing endangered or threatened species
- Created simple dam breach inundation maps and wetland maps using open source GIS software
- Conducted various types of soil compaction, moisture, and density tests

### Earth and Environmental Science Research and Fieldwork Assistant @ Vanderbilt University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Nashville, Tennessee
- Developed numerical model codes using Python and MATLAB to simulate transport of sediment on hillslopes


## Education
### B.S.  Engineering Science in Honors in Earth and Environmental Science
Vanderbilt University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016

### Full-Stack Web Development
Thinkful
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tmwatkins

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Last updated: 2026-03-22