Tim Whitney

Management

• Managed AWS infrastructure for processing
• Led a team of worldwide developers in the creation of new products and support of existing products through Agile practices and team rituals
• Support customer success with triaging and resolving customer tickets
• Managed large S3 Instance Managed 415.1 TB Total storage over 15.1 M Object count with a 28.9 MB Average object size
• ~1200 tickets Managed and created with a 90% completion rate across a 5 person dev team
• Work cross departmental to understand business requirements and deliver effective solutions

Backend

• Developed APIs for cloud-based LiDAR data processing and created a comprehensive platform for managing, processing, and visualizing LiDAR data
• Implemented licensing model that enabled in-house hardware processing and catalyzed the launch of new product lines
• Architected and engineered a message queue architecture for asynchronous LiDAR data processing and co-maintained a Python package for specialized data processing
• Developed CI/CD to build, distribute and update Electron app
• Utilized AWS Cloudfront to serve over 3000GB/month with 12 million requests

Frontend

• Developed Electron based desktop application integrating React and NodeJS (ROCK Desktop); in-housing licensing and revenue from products.
• Designed and implemented custom UI/UX, based on MUI, for processing, managing and sharing data
• Implemented bespoke, highly performant rendering of large datasets using WebGL and ThreeJS
• Created uploader for large files utilizing AWS S3 Multipart handling. Currently ~15M have been uploaded, with sizes ranging from 100 KB -> 100GB.
• Created customer dashboards to manage projects and folders
• Designed near real time messaging system to allow for customer feedback during long processes; reducing customer support tickets by 65%
• Integrated APIs with cloud services and desktop applications including: CRUD operations, authentication, uploading large data, licensing, purchasing, and hardware configuration management
• Utilized custom WebGL shaders for real-time viewing of point cloud classification and edits
• Opened new lines of business through integrating OpenLayers map, leading to increase in revenue
• Reduced deliverable turn around time by 75% through automated ML classification workflows, in-cloud editing, and enhanced data visualization for easier QA/QC.
• Managed AWS EC2 and S3 instances to support large-scale secure data operations
• Contributed to the development of the COPC file format, enhancing data handling efficiency
• Used Web Workers and ThreeJS to calculate and visualize volume from millions of points
• Enhanced data visualization capabilities by developing a map display integrating contours, trajectory, photos, and more, significantly improving product functionality

• Led team to develop Node.js form submission processors using message bus architecture. Form submissions collected through a REST endpoint and custom-built React frontend to render dynamic forms. Drupal was progressively decoupled using JsonAPI and custom modules.
• Setup and managed services and servers through OpenShift, Jenkins, GitLabCI. Applications active in the wild collecting over half a million submissions a month.

• Co-architected and led migration of 40+ legacy single sites into a single codebase and platform. Authored and developed stories for a product's platform to increase speed of delivery and optimization/reuse of code.
• Helped onboard non-Drupal developers into the new Drupal platform and helped to lead the off-shore team in migration efforts off of a deprecated platform.
• Worked globally to help understand and execute business demands, reduce technology costs and further company mission/goals of selling Travel Insurance through white labeled sites. Actively planned, prioritized and lead sprints to ensure delivery goals were met.

• Acquia Cloud Site Factory hosted Drupal 8 multisite platform serving 3500+ high traffic investor relations enterprise sites through a single code repo. Platform served over a quarter billion origin views a month.
• Scrum Master and lead developer delivering new features and maintenance support. Co-created automation scripts to help on board 100+ developers into the system for site building and migrating of 2 legacy platforms.
• Worked collaboratively across technology stacks and teams to deliver APIs, custom functionality and optimized performance. Further, co-led quarterly deployments and updates to the whole factory of sites.

• Led team of 6 developers to complete full site builds including third party integrations, migrations of content from legacy systems, and custom functionality specific for each client.
• Sites include: VisitSouthWalton.com, VisitWilliamsburg.com, Ohio.org, VisitMammoth.com

• Helped lead an open source initiative while developing small-medium size sites.
• Co-developed Chef recipe for Drupal site spin
• Co-developed vagrant instance for Drupal development
• Sites include: postnet.com, almonds.com, reconstructionexperts.com

• Drupal 7 web developer.

Graduated Cum Laude with Honors
Minor: History of Ideas