Tim Lovell-smith
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolTim Lovell-smith is a Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building reliable, high-performance cloud services at Microsoft, primarily on Azure Redis Cache. He blends deep systems and mathematical intuition—rooted in a Mathematics & Computer Science honours degree—with hands-on expertise in C#, TypeScript, C++, and low-level concurrency fixes. Tim has a track record of improving production reliability and performance, including notable open-source contributions to the widely used StackExchange.Redis client where he resolved threading contention and message ordering issues. His remit spans full-stack design, REST APIs, portal and runtime management, DevOps, and live site maintenance, and he regularly leads code, security, and operational reviews. Based in Bellevue, WA, he brings a pragmatic, engineering-first approach to complex distributed systems and a long-standing curiosity about math and science that informs elegant technical solutions.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree BSc. Hons - Mathematics and Computer Science (combined), Bachelor's Degree BSc. Hons - Mathematics and Computer Science (combined) at University of Canterbury
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
15,656reputation
2.8mreached
156answers
97questions
sql
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timer
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http
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sql-server
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websocket
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rest
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Github Skills (22)
redis10
multithreading10
timer10
redis-client10
rest10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
concurrency10
testing9
netframework9
websocket9
http9
sql9
performance-optimization9
sql-server9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
StackExchange/StackExchange.Redis
Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
General purpose redis client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 7 commits, 10 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Tim primarily focused on improving the performance and reliability of the `stackexchange/stackexchange.redis` client. They refactored the `PhysicalBridge` class to use a `ConcurrentQueue`, addressing thread contention and blocking issues. The user also fixed threading issues within test code, and optimized code for repeated dictionary lookups. Further contributions included adjusting timeouts in tests and re-applying a fix to address out-of-order message sending.
redisredis-clientumbracopurposec-sharp
TimLovellSmith/autorest
May 2016 - Mar 2024
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 11 months
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