Tim Ford
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Ford is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building developer tools, performance testing frameworks, and automation at scale, currently leading a Google subteam that supports regression detection across AI, Android, Cloud, Maps, Search and more. He has deep systems and language fluency (C++, Go, Python, Java, C#) and a proven track record designing CI/CD, repository and code-review automation used by hundreds of teams. Prior roles show repeated ownership of developer productivity platforms—from founding a tools team at WMS Gaming to architecting next-gen game frameworks—so he blends hands-on coding with product-minded infrastructure design. At Google he shepherded an internal performance regression service that became a cross-division dependency, demonstrating both technical leadership and reliability engineering at scale. Based in Chicago, he pairs advanced technical depth with a wry, self-aware communication style that helps demystify complex tooling for diverse stakeholders.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at University of MichiganBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Michigan State University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (22)
google-cloud-platform10
spanner10
gcp10
google-cloud-storage10
google-cloud-pubsub10
google10
google-cloud10
cloud-services10
cpp10
mako10
bigtable9
google-cloud-bigtable9
google-cloud-spanner9
performance-testing8
benchmark8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
google/mako
Apr 2019 - Jan 2021
Mako - A performance testing library and service
Contributions:8 releases, 44 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 9 months
testingmakobenchmarkperformanceperformance-testing
timford/google-cloud-cpp
Jun 2019 - Dec 2019
Google Cloud Client Library for C++
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
client-librarygcpcppgoogle-cloud
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