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 teams in 4 time zones went to production only through my authority.• 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 reduction of up to 95%.• 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 data reducing ongoing maintenance costs by more than 25%.

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 multiple feature teams for a production service with hundreds of millions of daily active users.• 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 internal and external solutions considering development cost, compatibility with existing infrastructure, and long-term support.• 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 every milestone.

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 investigating live site issues and contributing to fixes.• Responsible for developing and maintaining functional and non-functional testing.

La Jolla, California, Us