Summary
Timothy Overly is a pragmatic, hands-on Lead Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and leading teams across aviation, insurance, and real estate technology. He blends deep engineering craft—spanning Java, Ruby, JavaScript, and Python—with proven leadership from founding development teams to directing multiple engineering groups and shipping high-quality, test-driven software. Currently shaping ForeFlight’s product as well as advising an open-source BI-as-code project, he focuses on making complex systems safer, more efficient, and easier to maintain. His background in mechanical engineering and early work on embedded sensors and structural analysis gives him a rare systems perspective that informs scalable architecture and tooling decisions. Colleagues describe him as a developer-first leader who still prefers time at the keyboard while coaching engineers to ship reliably.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master Mechanical Engineering, Master Mechanical Engineering at University of Cincinnati - College of Engineering and Applied Science