Summary
Tim Tyrrell is a Principal Software Engineer with 16 years of professional experience and over five years leading remote engineering teams, currently shaping resilient digital asset management architectures at Smartsheet. He specializes in front-end JavaScript ecosystems—particularly React and TypeScript—plus pragmatic migrations to modern stacks like Next.js and serverless edge deployments, having driven major platform conversions at Tuft & Needle and Mediavine. Tim blends hands-on engineering with people leadership, growing teams, introducing developer processes, and advocating transparency, ownership, and empathy. He has a track record of improving performance and SEO through strategic SSG and CDN use, and has presented widely on JavaScript, testing, and architecture at regional conferences. Comfortable across full-stack concerns, he also orchestrates micro front-end and microservice strategies to phase out monoliths while preserving developer velocity.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts Computer Science at Illinois College
Master Of Information Systems Management Electronic Commerce, Master Of Information Systems Management Electronic Commerce at Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University