Summary
Tim Fogarty is a seasoned full-stack software engineer with 12+ years of professional experience and a multi-decade career spanning science, finance, and video streaming. Currently at Philo after serving as CTO of ROW8, he has led engineering teams and built cross-platform CTV and web streaming systems using Angular, TypeScript, PHP/Laravel, Go, Brightscript and AWS. He designs pragmatic architectures that solve real-world problems—examples include per-stream watermarking to trace piracy and geoproximity embargoing for theatrical windows. Tim’s background ranges from low-level assembly and VMS expertise to modern distributed systems (Kafka, ElasticSearch, NiFi), giving him rare depth across legacy and cloud-native stacks. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs hands-on coding with operational savvy and a track record of turning fragile, forked systems into scalable, maintainable platforms. An early Flex/ActionScript expert who once rewrote critical VMS socket code, he brings curiosity and institutional knowledge that help teams modernize without losing reliability.
11 years of coding experience
35 years of employment as a software developer
MS Geophysics, MS Geophysics at University of Southern California
BS Geology, BS Geology at Purdue University