Summary
Tim Pizey is a seasoned software engineering manager with 26 years of experience leading distributed, multi-disciplinary teams and running cloud-native publishing platforms at Elsevier. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Java, Python, Linux, databases (Oracle, MongoDB, MarkLogic) and CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, Maven, Docker, Terraform) with a proven track record of porting large workflow engines and warehouses to the cloud. Known for pragmatic open-source practice and building one of Elsevier’s first gender-balanced coding teams, he excels at “goat-herding” complex systems and people across time zones. Tim pairs academic rigor—MScs in AI and Software Engineering—with early entrepreneurial experience as a CTO and long-standing freelance practice, which informs his pragmatic, quality-focused engineering leadership.
26 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Software Engineering, 90.5% average, MSc, Software Engineering, 90.5% average at University of Oxford
BSc, Neurobiology, BSc, Neurobiology at Sussex University
MSc, Artificial Intelligence, MSc, Artificial Intelligence at Edinburgh University
French