Tim Fuchs

Staff Software Engineer I at Confluent

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

About

Experience

  • Confluent (Canada · Remote)
    • Staff Software Engineer I
      Mar 2026 - Present · 4 mos

      • Scaled materialized view platform to process >12 million daily events across 10 product teams and 30 queries • Defined 1-year technical roadmap based on user feedback, prioritizing continued adoption and usability improvements • Architected v2 of the query engine to support multi-stage data pipelines, enabling complex joins across 6+ tables and real-time aggregations

    • Senior Software Engineer II
      Jan 2024 - Mar 2026 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      • Led design and delivery of real-time indexing system ahead of schedule, providing materialized views of platform resource relationships; adopted by multiple product teams with self-service onboarding • Led deprecation of legacy stream-processing service causing repeated Sev-1/Sev-2 incidents, replaced by real-time indexing system; coordinated multi-team migrations to restore platform stability • Improved metadata delivery pipeline throughput up to 10x through targeted reliability investments • Reduced pre-production alerts 70%+ via on-call monitoring improvements; automated manual deployment workflow, saving hours of weekly toil and cutting security vuln resolution time ~50%

  • Shakepay (Montreal, QC)
    • Staff Software Developer
      Sep 2022 - Dec 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

      • Cut trading fee expenses by >40% and improved response times by >25% by redesigning trade fulfillment inventory management to automatically balance cash/crypto buffers based on real-time market conditions, increasing internal fill rates • Maintained backend reliability for 1.5M+ users through continuous monitoring, profiling, and targeted optimizations, keeping API response times <50ms and error rates <0.01% • Delivered financial asset management system to production through cross-functional collaboration with Accounting, Financial Operations, Legal, and Engineering • Provided technical leadership across trading, payments, job scheduling, reporting, and observability, aligning architecture across business-critical backend systems

    • Senior Software Developer
      Jan 2022 - Sep 2022 · 9 mos

      • Built an asynchronous job scheduling framework for long-running workflows such as bank transfer requests and transaction history processing, replacing previously synchronous flows that were slow and unreliable • Improved API reliability by reducing error rates by >50% and response times by >80% through SQL tuning, indexing, profiling, and targeted application optimization • Led code-level decomposition of a large Node.js monolith into smaller packages, enabling later separation into focused services for transaction processing, account management, reporting • Designed and delivered mission-critical services such as e-Transfer processing, card payments, crypto trade fulfillment, and transaction history materialization

    • Software Developer
      Dec 2019 - Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos

      • Scaled infrastructure and observability to support rapid growth from 20,000 to over 1 million users • Led the migration from a self-hosted Dokku deployment model to Kubernetes on EKS, containerizing the application and adapting it for cloud-native operation • Implemented CI/CD on AWS CodeBuild, replacing manual deployments with automated continuous delivery several times per day • Built core product APIs and third-party integrations for a crypto financial services platform, supporting transaction processing and compliance workflows

  • System Administrator at Collab Machine
    Nov 2019 - Sep 2020 · 11 mos

  • Sascha Lambeck Umwelt Radevormwald (Radevormwald, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
    • Web Developer
      Jun 2018 - Sep 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Design and development of company website

    • Software Developer
      Jun 2019 - Aug 2019 · 3 mos

      IT and inventory management, Design and development of custom inventory management software, Webdesign and -development

  • Web Developer at Orchideen Neuhaus
    Oct 2017 - Sep 2019 · 2 yrs

    Design and development of company website