Tim Underwood
Software Engineer at Highlands Fiber Network
Issaquah, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolTim Underwood is a pragmatic software engineer and founder with 17+ years of hands-on experience building high-performance backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and data-driven web services across startups and large enterprises. He has re-architected and operated mission-critical catalog APIs (Scala, Solr) at TecAlliance, squeezed JVM performance in long-running production services, and led end-to-end cloud deployments using AWS and IaC. Comfortable across languages from Rust and Scala to C/C++ and Ruby, he blends deep systems expertise with product-minded engineering—he built Frugal Mechanic and later applied that tech to large commercial catalogs. Tim also founders niche projects like GF Labeled, applying ML and Rust to a real-world accessibility problem driven by personal need. A believer in “You Build It, You Run It,” he pairs relentless performance tuning with practical operational ownership and a track record of shipping resilient, scalable systems.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at University of Washington
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Github Skills (16)
lucene10
javas10
information-retrieval10
backend10
solr10
java10
searching10
nashorn6
ivy6
affiliate6
scalatest6
sbt6
amazon-web-services6
commission-junction6
amazon-s36
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tpunder/lmdb-je
Dec 2014 - Jul 2022
Java LMDB (Lightning Memory Mapped Database) Library
Contributions:77 commits, 3 PRs, 37 pushes in 7 years 8 months
lmdbmemorylightninglibrary-databasedatabase
frugalmechanic/fm-sbt-common
Jan 2015 - Nov 2021
SBT Plugin with common configs for our projects
Contributions:2 PRs, 21 pushes, 16 tags in 6 years 11 months
scalaconfigssbtsbt-plugin
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