Tim Kral
Engineer at Meanwhile
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolTim Kral is a seasoned engineer and builder with 15 years of experience designing and operating scalable backend systems, from founding-engineer environments to senior leadership roles. He has led engineering teams at Medium and Relay Payments, co-founded and served as CTO at a YC company, and now contributes as an engineer in San Francisco, blending hands-on coding with product and organizational leadership. His background includes deep distributed-systems and big-data work—Kafka, Spark, Presto, and AWS-driven architectures—as well as platform-level contributions at Salesforce that shaped developer tooling and automation. Known for shipping full-stack solutions and operationalizing complex pipelines, he pairs Carnegie Mellon–trained technical rigor with a founder’s instinct for practical, shipping-first engineering.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Software Engineering, MS, Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (29)
jar10
java9
sdk9
agile9
database8
archetype6
playframework6
automata6
heroku6
fsm-library6
stateless4
spring-mvc4
state-machine4
fsm4
spring3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
forcedotcom/maven-force-plugin
Jul 2011 - Aug 2011
Contributions:19 commits in 1 month
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