Tim Cherry
Staff Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Cherry is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 12 years of experience building scalable, distributed systems at companies from Cisco IronPort and BitTorrent to Livefyre and Google. He’s a polyglot backend engineer fluent in Java, Python and C++, with deep operational experience across datastores (Cassandra, Mongo, MySQL, Redis) and streaming infrastructure like Kafka and Zookeeper. At Google he focuses on large-scale reliability and data-intensive services, bringing a systems-first mindset informed by early work in networking and research coding at UCLA. Comfortable across Ubuntu, FreeBSD and macOS, he blends low-level performance tuning with pragmatic design for production systems. Outside day-to-day work he maintains older open-source projects on GitHub, reflecting a long-standing commitment to tooling and reproducible engineering.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
English
Github Skills (7)
sink2
composition2
python2
json1
kafka1
pythonic1
producer1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
timcherry/protobuf-rpc
May 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:102 commits in 3 months
Livefyre/kafka-python
Aug 2014 - Oct 2014
Kafka protocol support in Python
Contributions:32 commits in 1 month
sinkpythonkafka-protocolproducerkafka
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