Tim King
VP, Product Engineering at WW (formerly Weight Watchers)
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top expert inClojure Web Development and Tooling
Tim King is a seasoned software leader and VP of Product Engineering with 14 years of experience building and scaling backend and full-stack systems. He led WW’s digital transformation—helping grow digital subscribers from 1.75M to 3.8M and shifting revenue mix toward digital—while expanding his leadership scope from a single team to multiple teams as a VP. A hands-on engineer comfortable across Java/JVM, Scala and Clojure, he has more recently driven production work in Node.js and Ruby on Rails and delivered key features like OIDC-based auth and multi-device fitness integrations. He has practical SRE and cloud migration experience, having moved services from Heroku to an AWS/Kubernetes platform to cut costs and latency. An active open-source contributor, he added protocol-level functionality and tooling improvements to the widely used CIDER project for Clojure development in Emacs. Based in San Francisco, Tim blends technical depth with people leadership and a track record of turning legacy systems into scalable, product-focused platforms.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
English
Github Skills (5)
clojure10
bencode10
clojure-cli10
nrepl10
emacs-lisp10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
clojure-emacs/cider
Aug 2012 - Mar 2013
The Clojure Interactive Development Environment that Rocks for Emacs
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:218 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Tim contributed significantly to the Clojure Interactive Development Environment (CIDER) project, primarily by adding functionality for bencode/bdecode. This included writing the supporting methods for reading, writing and handling messages to support the nREPL protocol. The user also refactored parts of the code to incorporate support for output coloring and to add extra functionality such as the ability to run eldoc.
rockscideremacsclojurescriptdevelopment-environment
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