Tim Kay
Staff Software Engineer at Checkbook
Los Altos, California, United States
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Top SchoolTim Kay is a seasoned staff software engineer and serial entrepreneur with 17 years of experience building startups, scalable systems, and embedded products from concept to market. He has founded and led multiple companies—from conversational agents and no-code mobile app platforms to automated electronics manufacturing—and played key technical roles at acquisitions and marketplace-listed security products. Based in Los Altos, he blends deep systems architecture and low-level engineering (including embedded and hardware-focused work) with product and operational leadership, exemplified by running one of the world’s largest Bitcoin mines and shipping ZeroLock SPC to Red Hat Marketplace. Tim returns to Checkbook to help scale the company after early involvement, while also contributing to antenna automation and the popular PySimpleGUI ecosystem. His background includes a PhD-level foundation in computer graphics and decades of high-impact prototyping, showing a rare mix of research rigor and hands-on manufacturing expertise.
17 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Sc.B. Mathematics, Sc.B. Mathematics at Brown UniversityCalifornia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (67)
customtkinter10
aws-s310
qt-gui10
esp3210
cli10
platformio10
cookbook10
multi-window10
pure-python10
amazon-ec210
pyqt10
tkinter10
aws-cli10
gui-framework10
amazon10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
timkay/aws
Mar 2009 - Mar 2021
Easy command line access to Amazon EC2, S3, SQS, ELB, and SDB
Contributions:273 commits, 12 PRs, 22 pushes in 12 years 1 month
aws-cliec2amazon-ec2sdbroute53
timkay/derek
Mar 2024 - Mar 2024
Contributions:10 PRs, 482 pushes, 20 branches in 9 days
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