Tim Mccarthy Email & Phone Number

Amsterdam, NH, NL

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Mainly ruby on rails (grape etc), little bit of react (and vanilla JS) here and there, and some Go for our API gateway.Shipping features and maintaining code across 4 different services in an SOA.

Johannesburg

• Lead the technical decision making within the company at management level, enabling 70% year on year growth and a successful series-B investment round.
• Mentored a dispersed team of 11 engineers, developing independence and critical skills.
• Managed code quality and application performance, ensuring 90%+ test coverage, 99% uptime, and 5 high-volume launch events with more than 5000 req/m.
• Rapidly prototyped and deployed a COVID-19 screening application using Howler's existing hardware and services, launching to customers within 1 month.

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Coordinated the migration from git flow to trunk based development with review apps, reducing the cycle time from weeks to days while mitigating risk of big deployments.
• Optimised PostgreSQL database usage during periods of intense growth to allow for improved performance, reducing database costs by 50%.
• Oversaw multiple 3rd party integrations and payment gateways, ensuring high availability and safe fallbacks.

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Lead the development for an exception based fleet management application that enabled companies to get rich analytics around their driver behavior whilst reducing operating costs.
• Developed an internal tool for scheduling and tracking OHASA compliance that allowed us to better manage our customers compliance status.
• Developed an internal tool for managing our on site security staff to ensure that our SLA's were being met.

Education record

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Electrical And Electronics Engineering