Tim Dettrick
Principal Software Engineer & Team Lead at TinyMCE
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolTim Dettrick is a Principal Software Engineer and team lead based in Brisbane with 15 years of experience building and operating cloud-native backend systems. He leads TinyMCE’s Systems Delivery team, managing a mix of Haskell and Scala services while driving their transition to TypeScript and Kubernetes for CI and production workloads. His work spans backend microservices, DevOps, and observability—having deployed Grafana, Prometheus and AWS Athena for logs and metrics—and includes hands-on experience with DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront, Ansible and EKS. Tim’s background in research-grade, open-source infrastructure and long-tenured roles at The University of Queensland informs a pragmatic approach to reliable, high-performance systems. He combines low-level systems pragmatism (Perl/MySQL early-career work) with modern cloud patterns, and is known for turning legacy stacks into scalable, observable platforms.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BE Software Engineering, BE Software Engineering at The University of QueenslandChinchilla State High School
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Github Skills (200)
ecosystem10
file-sharing10
text-editing10
contenteditable10
php10
assemble10
server-core10
python10
federated10
django10
editor10
editorjs10
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
dit4c/dockerfile-dit4c-container-qgis
Feb 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
dit4c/dockerfile-nghttpx
Oct 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:5 releases, 17 commits, 14 pushes in 2 years
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