Tim Freeman is a senior software development manager and founder with two decades of cloud computing experience, currently leading engineering for Amazon's Project Kuiper in the Greater Seattle Area. He has deep hands-on expertise building scalable distributed systems and SaaS platforms, from early research on IaaS at Argonne/University of Chicago to founding Yupdates, a high-throughput Rust/Python service that handled millions of jobs per month. At AWS he led teams across Elastic Beanstalk, HPC networking (EFA), and ParallelCluster, routinely blending product, architecture, and operations to ship reliable, production-grade services. His background spans research, large enterprise leadership (Dell), and bootstrapped startup execution, giving him both technical depth and operational rigor. Notably, his founder work emphasizes full isolation of external integrations and mature observability, reflecting a strong focus on security and measurable reliability.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Philosophy, BS Philosophy at St. John's College
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of Chicago
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Tim Freeman - Sr. Software Development Manager at Amazon