Tim S
CTO at Distill
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim S is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 11 years of industry experience who currently serves as CTO of Distill, building people and company search powered by natural language. He previously co‑founded Tandem (YC S19), scaling real‑time distributed systems in Elixir and cross‑platform clients that enabled millions of collaborative hours during the pandemic, and earlier built Astrid, a task manager acquired by Yahoo. Tim blends hands‑on engineering (from Scala and Go backends to TypeScript/React frontends and mobile) with product leadership, having led search, conversational assistance, and mobile products at Yahoo. He has a long history of shipping developer-friendly infrastructure and experiment platforms, and brings an unusual combination of technical depth, startup grit, and a values-driven focus on making work more human. Based in Mountain View, he keeps a public record of exploring ideas and experiments on his blog, reflecting a continuous curiosity beyond his day job.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
S19, S19 at Y CombinatorBS Electrical Engineering Computer Science, BS Electrical Engineering Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (156)
typescript10
gantt-chart10
google-search9
onchange9
wysiwyg9
backend9
notion9
google-search-api9
crawler9
web-crawler9
scraper9
owner9
react9
rich-text-editor9
bounds9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
draftpilot/draftpilot
Apr 2023 - Jun 2023
Draftpilot writes code in your codebase based on your instructions
Contributions:1 review, 49 PRs, 87 pushes in 1 month
okpush/cli
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:13 PRs, 23 pushes, 14 branches in 2 years 1 month
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