Summary
Tim Hogg is a Principal Technical Product Manager specializing in observability and cloud optimization, with 12+ years delivering infrastructure, SRE, and product leadership across Microsoft, Sinclair Digital, Columbia Sportswear, and Launch by NTT DATA. He builds practices from greenfield—creating an Observability Maturity Index and standing up division-wide observability and FinOps programs—translating technical complexity into measurable business value. A former military sensor-ops analyst who once briefed a division general, Tim combines operational rigor with empathy for teams and a penchant for tackling “impossible” problems others avoid. He’s a hands-on process mechanic and delivery glue who reduces tool sprawl, drives cloud cost optimization, and embeds observability into governance and AI pilot work. Tim learned software from the ground up—literally coding batch-file UIs as a teen—and still prefers learning by doing, iterating until solutions are production-ready. Based in Bothell, WA, he excels at connecting business context to engineering execution to unlock trapped value.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at North Seattle College
Computer Science & Software Engineering, Computer Science & Software Engineering at Cascadia College
Computer Science, Computer Science at Bellevue College
Project Management Academy