Tim Cheeseman
Founding Senior Backend Engineer at RecruitU
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Cheeseman is a Founding Senior Backend Engineer with 11 years of experience building low-latency, production-grade systems across finance, adtech, and personalization platforms. He has led and shipped backend work in high-throughput environments—from market data at SIG to a Rust proxy and analytics pipeline—while also contributing to the widely used open-source Prebid Server for real-time advertising auctions. Comfortable in Go, Rust, and systems design, Tim combines pragmatic engineering with a knack for teaching, having instructed data-structures and database courses at Drexel and trained developers at Bloomberg. He excels at tightening reliability and performance in distributed systems and has a track record of improving integrations (AMP, stored requests) and fixing subtle targeting bugs in ad infrastructure. Now based in Philadelphia and building at RecruitU, he pairs founding-stage product instincts with deep backend craftsmanship. An understated detail: beyond shipping features he often gravitates to debugging tricky query-parameter and test failures that restore fragile production behavior.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at Drexel UniversityA.B., A.B. at Central High School of Philadelphia
Github Skills (10)
openrtb10
go10
api10
google-amp10
apidoc10
ampl10
testing9
caching8
json8
configuration-management7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
prebid/prebid-server
Feb 2018 - Sep 2018
Open-source solution for running real-time advertising auctions in the cloud.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 38 PRs, 26 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to back-end functionality within the Prebid Server project, focusing on enhancing existing features and resolving issues. They implemented and refined targeting-related features, ensuring the correct behavior of ad server targeting. The user also worked on improving the AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) integration, by adding and handling query parameters and debugging functionality. Furthermore, they contributed to improving the stored requests functionality and fixed a broken test.
nodejsserver-sideprebid
cirla/advent-of-code
Dec 2021 - Dec 2024
Contributions:60 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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