Summary
Timothy Tutt is a proven software engineer and founder with 11+ years building large-scale search, discovery, and data analytics solutions for public and private sector customers. As CEO and cofounder he bootstrapped Night Shift Development from zero to $11M ARR and productized ClearQuery to give non-technical users conversational access to data, leading to acquisition by Snowflake. A former CTO at Bogart Associates, he drove secure communications R&D that resulted in a patent and brings deep operational expertise with Elasticsearch and NLP/ML-driven analytics. Tim blends hands-on technical chops with GTM and team-building experience—scaling cross-functional teams to 25 while keeping operations lean and profitable from day one. Now focused on agentic AI for national security as CEO of Agentic Defense Solutions, he pairs domain-savvy technical leadership with a knack for translating complex capabilities into usable products. Based in Tysons, VA, he is respected as a pragmatic innovator who favors secure, user-first solutions over academic complexity.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Virginia Tech