Timothy Bess

Timothy Bess has a diverse work experience in software engineering and system administration. Timothy'smost recent position is as a Software Engineer at The Prospective Company starting in 2023. Prior to that, they worked as a Software Architect at BlueChip Financial from 2020 to 2023, where they built a new event-driven underwriting system and developed a policy DSL and an event-driven underwriting pipeline. Timothy also worked as a Software Engineer at BetterCloud in 2019, where they built streaming Flink microservices and created a streaming graph DSL and a rules engine DSL.

From 2017 to 2019, Timothy worked at United Technologies as a Software Engineer, where they mentored new hires and contributed to scaling the Predikto platform. While there, they led a team to build the C3PO project and worked on backend services using technologies such as RabbitMQ, ElasticSearch, Spark, and Kubernetes. Before that, they worked as a Software Engineer at Vericheck, Inc., where they developed deployment scripts, implemented continuous integration and deployment workflows, and improved performance of legacy applications.

In 2016, Timothy worked at IgnitionOne as a PHP Developer, fulfilling client requests and integrating code functionality with client websites. Prior to that, they worked at Georgia Gwinnett College as a Junior Software Developer and as a Classroom Technology Support, where they worked on various applications and created the school's Android app, as well as provided technical support for A/V systems. In 2015, they worked at Ingenico Inc. as a Performance and QA Tester, testing payment terminals and ensuring quality standards.

Timothy has also worked as a freelance system administrator, using LAMP applications to run web apps for third parties.

Timothy Bess attended Georgia Gwinnett College from 2013 to 2017, where they studied Computer Science. During their time there, they did not obtain a degree. In October 2016, Timothy obtained a certification in C++ Essential Training from Lynda.com.