Tim Waterhouse
Senior SWE Tech Lead - Maps Tooling at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Waterhouse is a seasoned software engineering leader with 13 years building developer-facing infrastructure and productivity tools, currently serving as Senior SWE Tech Lead for Maps Tooling at Google in Seattle. He specializes in bridging front-end-heavy teams with robust backend infrastructure, improving developer velocity, reducing tech debt, and owning data security and privacy concerns for his org. His background spans engineering productivity, data-quality automation for Maps, and earlier test-automation and tooling leadership at Microsoft, showing a consistent focus on shipping high-impact tooling that scales. Tim pairs hands-on technical design with pragmatic team leadership—he’s led productionization efforts, modernized test-data seeding across large teams, and stepped into management during critical transitions. A Syracuse-trained engineer with additional study in patent law, he brings both technical breadth and an unusual legal perspective on data and IP that informs his approach to secure, auditable systems.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Patent Law, Patent Law at Villanova University Charles Widger School of LawB.S. Electrical Engineering Computer Science, B.S. Electrical Engineering Computer Science at Syracuse University
Github Skills (55)
unix10
linux10
openhab10
browser10
java10
kernel10
reload10
addon10
operating-system10
tiling9
nix9
xcb9
nixos9
serenity9
x119
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
caffineehacker/nix
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:108 pushes in 11 months
caffineehacker/openhab2-addons
Dec 2017 - Aug 2021
Add-ons for openHAB 2.x
Contributions:56 pushes, 20 branches in 3 years 7 months
add-onsopenhab2-xaddonons
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