Timothy Whelan
Chief Technology Officer at One Acre Fund
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorTimothy Whelan is a seasoned technology executive and CTO with nearly 30 years of hands-on software engineering experience and over a decade in senior leadership roles across startups and scale-ups. He combines deep technical fluency—from low-level C++ systems to modern backend architectures—with commercial acumen in payments, product delivery and go-to-market strategy. Timothy has led engineering and delivery teams at companies like One Acre Fund, hyperexponential, Breedr and iflix, consistently turning complex, regionally diverse requirements into reliable, scalable solutions. Known for bridging engineering and business, he excels at matching the right technology to the problem and translating stakeholder needs into pragmatic roadmaps. An early founder of a cross-platform secure information-sharing product, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a long track record of shipping end-to-end systems across industries and geographies.
11 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (20)
lastpass9
controlling6
command-line-interface6
cli5
testing4
wallpaper4
command-line4
tdd3
expressjs3
windows-app2
middleware2
nodejs2
client-library1
mysql-database1
file-watcher1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
timmyw/conway
Sep 2018 - Nov 2021
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
timmyw/ofsystem
Mar 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch, 4 tags in 1 year 10 months
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