Tim Etler
Senior Principal Engineer at Yahoo
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolTim Etler is a Senior Principal Engineer and technical co-founder with 13 years of experience building scalable web and mobile systems and real-time streaming APIs. He architected Vetted’s AI-powered platform from a backyard shed to production, designing type-safe end-to-end query systems, distributed messaging, and developer-friendly SDKs that keep frontend and backend in sync. Known for elegant abstractions and pragmatic simplicity, he creates frameworks and workflows that accelerate teams without sacrificing correctness. Tim hires and mentors high-retention engineering teams, codifies thoughtful interview processes, and champions rigorous code review and integrated tooling. His career traces early web innovation through startups and Yahoo, combining hands-on engineering with product and organizational leadership. Based in San Diego, he brings a long-term curiosity about the web — predating modern JS/CSS — to modern AI-driven product architecture.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Chinese, French
Stackoverflow
2,850reputation
620kreached
13answers
13questions
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Github Skills (32)
graph-drawing10
graph10
visual-analytics10
tree10
javascript9
visualization9
jquery9
indexing9
regex9
css9
server9
graph-visualization9
data-visualization9
html9
network9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
fangcao7618/fangcao7618.github.io
Jun 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:19 pushes, 6 branches in 6 months
fangcao7618/webpackDemo
Aug 2019 - Oct 2019
玩转webpack
Contributions:30 pushes, 6 branches in 1 month
webpackwebpack3webpack2
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