Tim Hansen Email & Phone Number

Santa Clara, CA, US

• Goals: Express my ability to take on new, difficult challenges having no prior game development experience. Highlight my development, organizational, and project management skills.
• The game is a 2D platformer game, developed in C# / Unity platform, while harnessing GPT-4 AI.
• Access to the private GitHub repo provided on request. Please send me your public ssh key!

New York, US

• Lead Software Developer Engineer in Test responsible for the migration from a monolithic service to a containerized microservice architecture leveraging Kubernetes (k8s) and terraform. Every release across 5+ feature.
• Infrastructure cost reduction from $1000/month to less than $250/month for hundreds of corporate customers. A net reduction of several million dollars annually for the company.
• Achieved significant improvement in stability by implementing redundancy and automatic disaster recovery of containers across multiple availability zones pushing customer SLA from less than 99.5% to 99.95%.
• Life Cycle Management process, CICD, and automation developed and utilized to prevent multiple production issues and, when possible, I would supply the pull request to fix it.
• Time to detect/time to recovery reduced by more than 80% compared to legacy infrastructure.
• Go to technical interviewer for SDET candidates, including many developers.

New York, US

• Automation infrastructure designed, developed, and maintained for my feature area ownership which led to a QA sign-off reduction from 3 weeks to 3 days, or 1 day if no performance testing required. A human effort.
• Implemented complex, non-functional testing such as security, performance, and high availability.
• Interviewing, training, and technical guidance of offshore QA resources for multiple teamsachieving up to a 3:1 reduction of human resource costs while upholding quality.
• Highly technical, in person training of 20+ full-time employees including dev and PM in France.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Navigated my 5 direct reports through 3 reorgs and 2 charter updates with zero attrition.
• Project manager deriving customer sentiment and engagement leveraging Office 365 big data.
• Designed and implemented a real time health monitoring and visualization system for dev and QA check-in pipeline infrastructure. The project was utilized to discover further improvements with actionable, prioritized.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Project owner for the pipeline infrastructure which was responsible for continuous integration. This critical service required management of a hundred physical and VM servers used by over a hundred developers across.
• Prototyped, designed, and developed a JavaScript unit test framework that was essential to the check-in process during a product re-architecture. Collaborated with multiple teams across the division to evaluate.
• Analyzed and supplied measurable data on the effectiveness of automation to discover new bugs to determine the critical point at which the team could stop future investments.
• Owned and fully automated many non-functional testing types including server stress, performance/seat capacity, access patterns, click response time, and PLT/client performance reducing manual effort by 2 weeks for.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Developed plans and implemented infrastructure and automation supporting end-to-end testing of multiple feature areas. Quality ownership all the way to the live site working with Ops, Dev, PM, and lab teams.
• Responsible for developing and maintaining functional and non-functional testing.

La Jolla, California, US