Tim Cheadle

Tim Cheadle

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VP of Engineering
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

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  • Phaidra
    VP of Engineering
    Phaidra
    May 2026 - Current (6 months)
    Building the next generation of tools to help AI factories run efficiently
  • Enrich
    Executive Member
    Enrich
    Nov 2023 - Current (3 years)
    • Contributor and Member Council advisor for a curated network of tech, product, and growth leaders
  • Phaidra
    VP of Agentic AI
    Phaidra
    Aug 2025 - May 2026 (10 months)
  • C
    Career Break
    Jun 2024 - Feb 2025 (9 months)
    • Took a pause to write, mentor, explore new tools, and reflect on how I want to lead and build
    • Attended tech conferences, pitched talk proposals, and tinkered with side projects and vibe coding
  • Binti
    VP of Engineering
    Binti
    Aug 2023 - Jun 2024 (11 months)
    • Led 25-person engineering organization as executive team member reporting to the CEO
    • Scoped, prioritized, and structured milestones for a SaaS used by 40% of US child welfare agencies
    • Launched the Family Finding product 5 months early, balancing essential new code with strategic reuse
    • Drove AI adoption to reduce CI/CD time by 30% and translate the UI into dozens of new languages
    • Saved 40% on annual operating costs by optimizing GCP architecture and third-party services
    • Ensured HIPAA and SOC 2 compliance and secure data practices consistent with state regulations
    • Established product delivery milestones and rituals that improved team clarity, velocity, and cross-functional alignment
  • Shopify
    Senior Engineering Manager (with Product focus)
    Shopify
    May 2022 - May 2023 (1 year 1 month)
    • Led Shopify Shipping engineering, enabling millions of merchants to ship using carriers worldwide
    • Partnered with design, product, and data science to set strategy for 70+ person cross-functional team
    • Boosted platform capacity 5x by optimizing transaction processing, enabling 100 label purchases at once
    • Launched ML-based auto package selection using order data, saving merchants hours of manual work
    • Enabled merchants to print, void, and track shipments in bulk across multiple carriers
  • Resolve To Save Lives
    Director Of Engineering
    Resolve To Save Lives
    Feb 2018 - Mar 2022 (4 years 2 months)
    • Co-founded the tech organization and built Simple.org from zero to production in six months
    • Scaled to serve 6+ million patients in four countries with thousands of daily active users
    • Architected an award-winning, offline-first mobile app, enabling patient updates in under 15 seconds
    • Prioritized work to focus on patient outcomes, embedding engineers in user research to deepen empathy
    • Led partnerships with WHO and governments for deployment, training, and reporting requirements
  • General Assembly
    Technical Lead
    General Assembly
    Sep 2016 - Feb 2018 (1 year 6 months)
    • Led the 7-person engineering team responsible for marketing systems, account management, billing, deployment, and cloud infrastructure
    • Identified and automated a manual marketing workflow, unlocking $3M+ in new revenue in six months
    • Led $2M redesign of homepage, course catalog, and supporting APIs, managing vendors and deliverables
    • Reduced login issues by 90%, partnering with support to improve SSO reliability and Heroku performance
  • Umba
    Chief Technology Officer
    Umba
    Mar 2013 - Feb 2014 (1 year)
    • Grew venture-backed startup to $500K+ ARR, driving product strategy and hands-on implementation
    • Migrated to Shopify, enabling subscriptions and wholesale without data loss for thousands of customers
    • Optimized daily operations by 25% by automating inventory management across retail and wholesale
  • R
    Founder
    Rational Means
    Jan 2011 - May 2018 (7 years 5 months)
    • Bootstrapped the design, development, and Shopify Partner agency to $500K annual revenue in 3 years
    • Enabled an education startup’s expansion to 4 cities by building a scalable, user-centered Rails app
    • Refactored blog import tool for WordPress.com, improving stability and speed for millions of users
  • Google
    Technical Program Manager
    Google
    Feb 2009 - May 2010 (1 year 4 months)
    • Google's first hire for the Fleet Management team, unifying hardware and software capacity plans
    • Integrated company-wide data to create a 5-year deployment plan for 900K+ servers in 80+ data centers
    • Saved over $10M by analyzing storage usage and harvesting unused hardware without downtime
  • Google
    Site Reliability Engineer
    Google
    Aug 2005 - Feb 2009 (3 years 7 months)
    • Scaled the cluster operations team from 8 to 40 in a year as one of the first SREs at Google
    • Led 9-engineer team running GFS and Borg, Google's core distributed storage and compute systems
    • Automated 100% of fulfillment requests for compute and storage resources across every Google product
  • America Online
    Systems Programmer
    America Online
    Jun 2000 - Aug 2005 (5 years 3 months)
    • Instrumented real-time observability for the first live streamed Super Bowl commercials
    • Created system agents to observe AOL’s Tier 1 ISP network and servers powering Winamp and Shoutcast
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  • GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY
    BS, Computer Science
    GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY
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  • O
    Out of Office Hours
    Jan 2017 - Jan 2021 (4 years 1 month)
    Each month I mentored folks new to the tech industry or those changing careers and needing guidance.
  • F
    Friends Council at Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundation
    Jan 2015 - Jan 2019 (4 years 1 month)
    Coordinated and hosted speaking events and fundraising campaigns to support all of the library's community outreach efforts.
  • R
    RevTech Labs
    Jan 2012 - Jan 2013 (1 year 1 month)
    Packard Place announces the opening of RevTech Labs in Uptown Charlotte. RevTech Labs is geared toward Charlotte’s burgeoning developer community and will provide a place for tech startups to launch. The 3 month program focuses on early stage mobile, software and web companies. RevTech Labs will provide free work space, mentorship, and programming all geared toward revolutionary technology startups.
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    Editor's Choice from British Medical Journal
    BMJ Health Care Informatics
    Our article about Simple won the Editor's Choice award for April 2023
  • I
    Best in Show from IxDA Awards
    Interaction Design Association
    The Simple.org project won "Best in Show" at the IxDA annual conference in Milan
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    Keep it simple: designing a user-centred digital information system to support chronic disease management in low/middle-
    Jan
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