Tim Gent
Staff Software Engineer at Gizmo.ai
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Gent is a Staff Software Engineer based in London with 11 years of experience building full-stack systems, leading teams, and shipping production services across startups and the public sector. He blends strong backend expertise in Scala, Elixir and Node.js with pragmatic DevOps and data engineering practices, having led platform and CI/CD improvements using Docker, Kubernetes and AWS. Tim has repeatedly moved between hands-on engineering and technical leadership—scaling teams at Multiverse and ONZO and guiding delivery at the Home Office—while maintaining a deep interest in AI tooling. He’s adept at turning complex legacy integrations into modern, testable microservices and mentoring engineers through recruitment, training and progression. Outside of code, his earlier commercial and programme roles give him a rare fluency in contracts, stakeholder management and organisational design. He’s currently helping Gizmo.ai apply learning-focused engineering to make education more accessible.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Physics, BSc (Hons), Physics at University of Nottingham
Github Skills (200)
language-server-protocol10
type-system10
elixir10
openid10
data-quality10
language-server10
amazon-s310
hashicorp9
vault9
configuration-language9
scalable9
proxy9
openid-provider9
k8s9
unit-testing9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
timgent/timgent.github.io
Mar 2024 - Jul 2026
Contributions:9 PRs, 21 pushes, 19 branches in 2 years 4 months
timgent/data-flare
May 2020 - May 2022
Data quality control tool built on spark and deequ
Contributions:8 releases, 26 reviews, 138 commits in 2 years
sparkdata-qualitybig-data
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