Tim Gent
Staff Software Engineer at Gizmo.ai
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Gent is a Staff Software Engineer based in London with 11 years of experience building full-stack systems, leading teams, and shipping production services across startups and the public sector. He blends strong backend expertise in Scala, Elixir and Node.js with pragmatic DevOps and data engineering practices, having led platform and CI/CD improvements using Docker, Kubernetes and AWS. Tim has repeatedly moved between hands-on engineering and technical leadership—scaling teams at Multiverse and ONZO and guiding delivery at the Home Office—while maintaining a deep interest in AI tooling. He’s adept at turning complex legacy integrations into modern, testable microservices and mentoring engineers through recruitment, training and progression. Outside of code, his earlier commercial and programme roles give him a rare fluency in contracts, stakeholder management and organisational design. He’s currently helping Gizmo.ai apply learning-focused engineering to make education more accessible.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Physics, BSc (Hons), Physics at University of Nottingham
Github Skills (200)
amazon-s310
language-server-protocol10
storage10
adapter10
language-server10
type-system10
elixir10
openid10
debug10
intellisense10
vault9
configuration-language9
render9
k8s9
utilities9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
timgent/elixir-ls
Oct 2022 - May 2024
A frontend-independent IDE "smartness" server for Elixir. Implements the "Language Server Protocol" standard and provides debugger support via the "Debug Adapter Protocol"
Contributions:6 reviews, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 1 year 7 months
independentelixiradapterdebug-adapter-protocolserver-protocol
UKHomeOffice/github-org-team-creator
Oct 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year
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