Tim Elam

tim-elam.dev/resume

Atlanta, Georgia

Summary

Business-aligned engineering leader with over a decade of experience in building scalable, impactful software in FinTech and B2B SaaS. Experienced in mentoring and developing engineering talent, fostering empowered teams, and managing cross-functional projects. Demonstrated expertise in architecting serverless systems and optimizing developer experience. Holds an MBA focused on Technology Commercialization from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a BS in Computer Science from Georgia Southern University.

Skills

Languages
  • C#
  • Go
  • GraphQL
  • HTML + CSS + JavaScript
  • Python
  • Ruby
  • SQL
  • TypeScript
Frameworks
  • .NET
  • Angular
  • Django
  • Next.JS
  • Node.js
  • React
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Tailwind CSS
Platforms
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
  • Kubernetes
  • LangChain
  • MongoDB
  • PostgreSQL
  • SST
  • Serverless

Work Experience

  • 2025

    YouLend

    Lead Engineer

    Mar. 2025 - Present

    • Established YouLend's first US-based engineering team.
    • Organized a Refactoring UI book club to foster adoption and ownership and of visual design principles.
    • Supported US business operations via hands-on feature development, maintenance, and support.
  • 2024

    Dec. 2024 - Mar. 2025

    • Automated political candidate research process by replacing local scripts with event-driven serverless architecture.
    • Increased service reliability by introducing ephemeral environments for end-to-end testing in temporarily provisioned environments.
    • Optimized cloud compute costs by migrating applications from Heroku to AWS and archiving unused resources.
  • 2023

    DemoFox

    Founder & CEO

    Mar. 2023 - Sep. 2024

    Atlanta, Georgia

    • Founded DemoFox, an AI-powered enterprise social video collaboration startup.
  • 2021

    UserTesting

    Director of Engineering

    Aug. 2021 - Feb. 2023

    Chamblee, Georgia

    • Led 3-team, 15-person Test Results engineering organization.
    • Directly managed and mentored engineering managers and staff engineers through the architecture proposal process for new features such as full-text search.
    • Empowered future architecture flexibility by adding core domain model lifecycle events to application event bus.
  • 2019

    UserTesting (continued)

    Senior Manager, Engineering

    Jul. 2019 - Aug. 2021

    Chamblee, Georgia

    • Accelerated customer time-to-value with Keyword Maps, a novel aggregate transcript visualization.
    • Guided engineers’ career growth, mentoring them into senior, staff, principal, and engineering manager roles through tailored development plans and coaching.
    • Revitalized department-wide legacy AngularJS upgrade by introducing custom monorepo tooling.
    • Improved design system release velocity with Cypress visual baseline integration testing.
  • 2018

    Kabbage

    Software Development Manager

    Apr. 2018 - Mar. 2019

    Atlanta, Georgia

    • Managed two teams of software and QA engineers responsible for the marketing website and signup funnel.
    • Drafted performance improvement and career development plans.
    • Coached team members through individualized plans and tracked improvement.
  • 2015

    Kabbage (continued)

    Senior Software Engineer

    Jan. 2015 - Apr. 2018

    Atlanta, Georgia

    • Directly increased same-day cash advance volume through redesigned signup flow.
    • Architected core product transition from multi-tenant ASP.NET to single-tenant Single Page Applications back by multi-tenant microservices.
  • 2014

    Octane5 International

    Django Developer

    Apr. 2014 - Dec. 2014

    Alpharetta, Georgia

    • Developed and maintained BrandComply, a specialized brand license management CMS platform
  • 2013

    Veloxiti, Inc

    Engineer

    Jul. 2013 - Apr. 2014

    Alpharetta, Georgia

    • Developed systems for the US Army Civil Information Managment program with the US Army Research Laboratory.

Education

  • 2023

    Georgia Institute of Technology

    Master of Business Administration

    2020 - 2023

    Atlanta, Georgia

    Concentration: Technology Commercialization (TI:GER)

  • 2013

    Georgia Southern University

    Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

    2010 - 2013

    Statesboro, Georgia

Side Projects

  • 2025

    Aug. 2025 - Sep. 2025

    • Designed, developed, and launched The Cosplay Herald, a niche news platform for the competitive cosplay community.