Tim
Chepeleff

Leading the Application & Language Frameworks team within Engineering Services. Responsible for language stewardship, developer onboarding, messaging standards (Protobuf), and built-in resiliency patterns including circuit breakers and PII redaction.

Board member for COM Sports Car Club, one of the oldest active sports car clubs in the country (founded 1958). Focus on merchandise operations and landing sponsorship deals. I also provide high-speed driving instruction, helping novice and intermediate drivers advance their skill levels in HPDE events across Northeast tracks.

Spearheaded UI-based self-service configuration management for Kubernetes services. Directed HPA adoption saving $1.2M annually in infrastructure costs while increasing resiliency.

Technical Lead for Release Engineering (20 engineers across 3 teams). Promoted Kubernetes CD to standard deployment mechanism, supporting 2,000+ services and 15,000 monthly deployments.

Technical Lead for Deploy Platforms team. Led development of end-to-end GitOps-based continuous deployment overhaul for Kubernetes. Reduced new application time to production from 20 days to 20 minutes.

Built React/Node.js service coordinating batch deployments for Wayfair's monolith. Decreased docker build time by 67% and implemented Pub/Sub for concurrent batch processing.

Technical Co-founder for patented RF spectrum monitoring platform. Built React UI and Rails API, scaled AWS Kubernetes cluster to handle 700+ RPS and 13M+ DB records/month. Nearly 300 systems sold worldwide.

Developed products for companies from startups to multinational corporations. Worked primarily with Rails, React, Erlang and Elixir. Helped multiple startups deliver MVPs and secure funding.