Tim Sullivan Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Washington, United States

I work on technical partnerships at Anthropic, integrating Anthropic's best-in-class AI models into Amazon's AWS Bedrock and Google's GCP Vertex services.

Seattle, Wa

Under my technical leadership, Panopto became the leading provider of video services for higher education. We had over 10 million users and over 2500 customers. We ingested tens of thousands of hours of videos every day, across 5 regional clouds, search-indexed every spoken word and all visual text, auto-generated a table of contents, and published videos instantly. We integrated with hosts of partners, from video conferencing (Zoom, Microsoft), to learning management systems, to hardware vendors.I led all engineering and product development from series A through series C investment/exit to PE. Grew the product dev team from 5 to 45. Drove major product improvements to fuel ARR growth from $3M to $60M. Fiduciary responsibility for 40% of total OpEx.- Defined roles and career ladders for all product dev disciplines.- Defined and executed a transparent product planning process.- Drove dramatic reductions in unit rate costs: 60% in storage and 84% in compute. (Presented at 2016 AWS re:invent presentation on cost optimization via Spot instances: https://youtu.be/crcmbbQTIcY)- Consistently achieved 4 9’s of uptime, at high scale (300MM req/day).- Established an on-call rotation and on-call procedures. Created trust.panopto.com for transparent customer status reporting.- Created a culture of root cause analysis where we embrace and fix mistakes, while broadly sharing learnings within the company.- Established and hired a UX design and product management team.- Consistently worked to grow new leaders, promoted managers from within, encouraged engineers to seek broad impact.- Created a culture of collaboration towards shared goals rather than competition towards individual promotion.

Redmond, Wa

Dec 2010 – Aug 2011: Microsoft – Principal Dev Manager, Windows - Led a team of 10 developers to build the UX for Windows 8’s touch-first web browser and native apps.Jan 2007 – Dec 2010: Microsoft – Principal Dev Manager, Live Labs- Owned all Live Labs development, 28 devs across five managers. Managed four separate projects shipping on independent schedules (Pivot, PivotViewer, Zoom.it, Seajax). High exec interaction.Nov 2005 – Jan 2007: Microsoft – Senior Developer, Start.com / Live.com personalized home page- Incubation project that pushed the bleeding edge of AJAX webdev- Vertical ownership across all three service tiers: database, web services, web clientMay 2005 – Nov 2005: Microsoft – Senior Dev, MSN Entertainment- Subscription music service incubation project (pre-Zune)- Owned the client appJul 1999 – May 2005: Microsoft – Developer, Visual Studio, Core UX Team- Instrumental in shipping the initial .Net release that unified all Microsoft development platforms on a single dev toolset.- Owned critical features of the VS App and core architectureMay 1998 – Aug 1998: Microsoft – Software Dev Intern, MS Office