Tim Dettrick
Principal Software Engineer & Team Lead at TinyMCE
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolTim Dettrick is a Principal Software Engineer and team lead based in Brisbane with 15 years of experience building and operating cloud-native backend systems. He leads TinyMCE’s Systems Delivery team, managing a mix of Haskell and Scala services while driving their transition to TypeScript and Kubernetes for CI and production workloads. His work spans backend microservices, DevOps, and observability—having deployed Grafana, Prometheus and AWS Athena for logs and metrics—and includes hands-on experience with DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront, Ansible and EKS. Tim’s background in research-grade, open-source infrastructure and long-tenured roles at The University of Queensland informs a pragmatic approach to reliable, high-performance systems. He combines low-level systems pragmatism (Perl/MySQL early-career work) with modern cloud patterns, and is known for turning legacy stacks into scalable, observable platforms.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BE Software Engineering, BE Software Engineering at The University of QueenslandChinchilla State High School
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Github Skills (200)
untappd10
python10
authentication10
foursquare10
data-management10
pocket10
wysiwyg10
webserver10
tinymce10
federated10
javascript10
ecosystem10
django10
pods10
file-sharing10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
dit4c/dockerfile-gotty
Oct 2015 - Sep 2016
GoTTY Docker image
Contributions:10 commits, 11 pushes, 5 branches in 11 months
docker-image
dit4c/tty-lean.js
Sep 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:75 commits, 5 pushes, 1 tag in 10 months
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