Timothy Cheng
Senior Software Engineer at Icon Solutions
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTimothy Cheng is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years’ experience building scalable, production-grade backend systems for public transport and retail platforms. He has deep expertise in Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot, Elasticsearch, Terraform and AWS, and has repeatedly delivered reliability and cost savings—most notably introducing on-demand reporting with AWS Athena that serves multi-year trend queries in seconds. Timothy has a track record of modernising legacy stacks (migrating Spring apps to Spring Boot) and embedding infrastructure-as-code to create ephemeral test environments. Comfortable leading cross-team initiatives, he pairs strong API design and reactive-programming skills with a pragmatic focus on observability and customer-facing documentation. Based in London, he brings a blend of enterprise discipline and hands-on engineering that consistently turns complex operational requirements into performant, maintainable systems.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Spanish, Chinese, English, Portuguese, French, Italian
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Github Skills (48)
search-engine10
opensearch10
java10
restful10
elasticsearch10
visualization9
data-access9
nginx9
ddd8
spring8
spring-data8
visualize8
spring-boot7
mono7
docker7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hobo05/nginx-graph
Dec 2016 - Nov 2022
A way to visualize nginx config files
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 6 years
nginxvisualizedockerconfignginx-config
hobo05/copy-photos
Aug 2016 - Dec 2021
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
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