Tim Nance is an empathetic, delivery-focused engineering manager with a decade of experience scaling high-traffic platforms and building cross-functional teams. He has driven measurable performance gains—cutting app startup times by over 75%, reducing CI build times by 40%, and improving reliability through SLOs and tracing—across organizations from The New York Times to Betterment and Facebook. Tim excels at operationalizing GraphQL and platform tooling to boost developer velocity, while also coaching engineers and standardizing hiring and onboarding practices. Based in New York, he pairs hands-on technical judgment with a talent for organizational influence (reinforced by executive training in persuasion), and is known for turning complex traffic and resilience challenges into repeatable, team-owned systems.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science & Engineering, BS, Computer Science & Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington
Executive Education, Persuasion: Influencing Without Authority, Executive Education, Persuasion: Influencing Without Authority at Columbia Business School
Contributions:3 PRs, 5 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 8 months
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