Tim Etchells
Chief Technology Officer at Basestation
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Etchells is a pragmatic technology leader and CTO with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, developer-focused tooling and front-end experiences. He combines hands-on engineering—architecting and authoring core Codewind VS Code extension work at IBM and contributing UI improvements to the widely used Argo CD project—with strategic leadership at Basestation. His strengths span TypeScript, Kubernetes/OpenShift, CI/CD and developer experience, consistently turning complex platform requirements into polished interfaces and reliable pipelines. Tim is comfortable shifting between deep implementation (authoring most of a project’s code) and product-level decision making, and he brings a track record of shipping open-source features that improve usability for large-scale deployment workflows.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - B.Sc., Honors Specialization in Computer Science, Minor Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - B.Sc., Honors Specialization in Computer Science, Minor Software Engineering at Western UniversityUTS Diploma, UTS Diploma at University of Toronto Schools
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
ui-design10
argocd10
uid10
front-end-development10
react10
google-font9
google-fonts9
yaml6
kubernetes-pods5
dockers5
docker5
kubernetes5
gitops4
typescript4
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
argoproj/argo-cd
Sep 2020 - Nov 2020
Declarative Continuous Deployment for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Frontend Developer
Frontend DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 15 commits, 17 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to the user interface elements within the Argo CD project. Their work involved bundling Google fonts, adding tooltips to tables, and adding a version information panel. They also addressed UI issues such as preventing error overflows and improving the UX for filtering applications. Further contributions included improvements to settings UI through the addition of tooltips and the addition of an autocomplete for repository revisions.
cdcontinuous-deploymentdokkupipelinehelm
tetchel/express-ts
Nov 2020 - Oct 2021
Docker and Kube-ready Express application in TypeScript.
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 32 commits in 11 months
kubeexpressdockerkubernetesnodejs
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