Tim Fuchs
Staff SWE I at Confluent
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Fuchs is a staff software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building and operating high-scale backend systems, currently at Confluent after a multi-year impact at Shakepay. He specializes in backend architecture, observability, and reliability engineering—owning trading engines, payment processing, job scheduling and data streams for platforms serving over a million users. Tim has a proven track record of performance and cost improvements (notably cutting response times and trading fees) and led rapid platform migrations such as a self-led containerization and Kubernetes rollout. Comfortable across the stack, he blends system administration roots with software craftsmanship, shipping APIs, CI/CD pipelines and critical services in AWS/Kubernetes environments. Colleagues benefit from his mentorship and cross-functional collaboration with finance, operations and legal to turn complex requirements into robust production systems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Abitur, Mathematics, English, Abitur, Mathematics, English at Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium Radevormwald
German, English, French
Github Skills (68)
kafka-streams8
peer-to-peer8
messaging8
issue-tracking8
filesystem8
image8
synchronization8
kafka-connect8
image-processing7
data-stream7
data-streams7
javascript7
kubernetes-operator7
cli7
queue7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
fuchstim/subframe
Feb 2019 - Feb 2020
SuBFraMe (Securely Broadcasted Fragmented Messaging) is an entirely decentralized, general purpose communications network
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year
fragmentedp2pnetworkingcommunicationsdecentralized
fuchstim/fibrejs
Feb 2023 - Jun 2023
FibreJS is an extensible business rule engine with a visual editor
Contributions:1 review, 111 pushes, 4 branches in 4 months
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