Tim Simek
Customer Engineer, Google Cloud
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Simek is a customer-focused cloud engineer with 4 years at Google Cloud and over a decade of prior leadership delivering risk analytics and integration solutions for major North American banks. He brings deep hands-on expertise in large-scale financial risk systems, big data platforms (Hortonworks/Cassandra), and cross-stack implementations from OS and databases to Java/C++ integrations. At IBM he led teams that performed distributed stress-testing and shepherded adoption of bleeding-edge analytics technologies, often acting as the bridge between product, sales, and executive stakeholders. Now at Google Cloud he leverages that domain knowledge to help financial customers modernize on cloud-native infrastructure and data platforms. Known for translating complex regulatory and risk requirements into pragmatic, auditable technical solutions, he pairs technical depth with client-facing leadership. A Waterloo computer science co-op alum, he combines rigorous engineering fundamentals with a track record of operationalizing high-impact financial systems.
4 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Honours BMath, Computer Science (Co-op), Honours BMath, Computer Science (Co-op) at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (23)
testing9
security9
chain9
e2e9
transparency9
integration-testing9
1password8
wordpress8
helm7
charts7
integrity6
artifacts6
signing6
digital-signature6
ecdsa5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
var-sdk/scaffolding
Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
Stuff to make standing up sigstore (esp. for testing) easier for e2e/integration testing.
Contributions:49 pushes, 22 branches in 1 month
testingespe2esigstoreintegration-testing
var-sdk/rekor
May 2022 - Sep 2022
Software Supply Chain Transparency Log
Contributions:6 pushes, 5 branches in 4 months
supply-chainchainsupplytransparency-logsoftware-supply-chain
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