Tim Elson
Project Director at Turner & Townsend
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Elson is a Project Director with over 15 years' experience delivering large-scale infrastructure and property programmes across the UK, currently leading multi-stakeholder, regulated projects at Turner & Townsend. He has a proven track record building and coaching high-performing teams and managing complex capital portfolios—having overseen programmes at Crossrail, Network Rail, Heathrow and major water utilities. Comfortable operating at the interface of public consultation, commercial negotiation and technical delivery, Tim brings hands-on GRIP and CDM experience alongside strategic governance and PMO capability-building. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he has applied backend development expertise to improve API Gateway behavior in the widely used Serverless Framework, reflecting a rare blend of delivery leadership and practical technical fluency. Outside work he channels competitive drive into endurance sport and offbeat challenges, a trait that underpins his resilience in high-pressure programme environments.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Criminal Justice and Sociology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Criminal Justice and Sociology at University of Plymouth
Github Skills (8)
serverless10
javascript10
aws10
api-gateway10
serverless-framework10
nodejs9
aws-lambda9
testing8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
serverless/serverless
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
⚡ Serverless Framework – Effortlessly build apps that auto-scale, incur zero costs when idle, and require minimal maintenance using AWS Lambda and other managed cloud services.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 15 comments in 15 days
Contributions summary:Tim primarily focused on improving the API Gateway functionality within the Serverless Framework. Their commits addressed bugs related to event validation, specifically correcting issues with empty or invalid http events in the serverless.yml configuration. They also made changes to fix an inconsistent error message and remove a redundant service list. The user's work involved modifying core files related to API Gateway deployment and validation logic.
aws-lambdaserverlessiot-applicationsawsgoogle-functions
tlelson/tlx
Apr 2018 - Mar 2025
AWS utilities and often repeated code.
Contributions:6 PRs, 224 pushes, 9 branches in 6 years 11 months
step-functionsaws
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