Tim Ellis
CTO Cofounder at Adviser Labs
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Ellis is a CTO and co-founder with 13 years of experience architecting and operating extremely large, high-throughput systems for mission-critical public services and consumer platforms. He blends hands-on engineering with cross-team leadership, driving resiliency, performance, and operational clarity at companies from Apple and Confluent to Stability AI and his own startups. Tim has repeatedly built and run massive data and analytics clusters (billions of events per day) and led globally distributed teams while still preferring roles where he retains direct technical responsibility. He prioritizes pragmatic automation and reliability—often owning strategy through execution—and is selective about senior roles, accepting only principal-level positions that report directly to the C-suite. A pragmatic builder with deep experience in Kafka, MySQL/Postgres, Kubernetes, and large-scale ETL, he thrives on untangling complexity where uptime and safety are non-negotiable.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of KansasBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Schrödinger's School of Uncertain Byte-Ordering
Github Skills (9)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
time-palominodb/PalominoClusterTool
Jul 2012 - Nov 2012
Contributions:79 commits in 4 months
wizzat/arsimto
Aug 2014 - Jun 2017
Contributions:31 commits in 2 years 11 months
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