Tim Rutt Email and Phone Number

I am a member of a small team designing, developing and maintaining the multiaward-winning forge by Xura platform, which offers WebRTC audio/video calls (including conferencing and recording), instant messaging and presence capabilities to web and native mobile app developers. My role encompasses the full software development lifecycle, from user story to software release and deployment, in which agile techniques are used. I have worked on all aspects of the platform - this includes developing the client SDKs (Java for Android, Objective-C for iOS, Javascript for web) and the AWS cloud-based network components (mostly Node.js), as well as maintaining the production network.

My position as Consultant Engineer involved me in the development of telephony software systems for network operators through the full software lifecycle. This required the application of technical skills to design and implement robust, high-performance solutions. I was appointed Assistant design Authority. As ADA I was responsible for the approval of designs of other software engineers, as part of the ISO9001 quality processes. This role required me to apply my experience and technical expertise in critiquing the designs of fellow engineers as well as having a keen awareness of the needs of the wider business.

As a Principal Engineer, I was heavily involved in porting Telsis’s SMS products from custom hardware to commodity servers. I also worked on products such as Ocean Services Platform (a Java-based telephone call-handling application server) and Mobile Assistant (a call management service allowing two mobile phones to be paired enabling sophisticated call routing options). I also regularly deputised for my engineering team leader.

As a Senior Design Engineer, in addition to my software engineering work, I was involved in mentoring junior colleagues. I also managed projects with small teams of engineers.

This was my first post following graduation from university. I mostly worked on Telsis’s SMS (text message) routing products. These were embedded systems, based on custom hardware. Software was written in C or proprietary C-like languages.