Tim Williams
Lead Developer & Cloud Architect
Professional Summary
Lead Developer with over 15 years of experience, specializing in designing and building scalable web and mobile applications using cutting-edge technologies like AWS, Node.js, Vue, PHP, and Laravel. My expertise lies in developer coaching, developer experience, driving innovation, and delivering high-impact, user-centric solutions across diverse modalities.
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Database
Cloud
Leadership & Skills
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Leadership
Communication
Professional Experience
Lead Developer with over 15 years of experience, specializing in designing and building scalable web and mobile applications using cutting-edge technologies like AWS, Node.js, Vue, PHP, and Laravel. My expertise lies in developer coaching, developer experience, driving innovation, and delivering high-impact, user-centric solutions across diverse modalities.
Key Projects:
- GTZenda - Enterprise document intelligence pipeline that ingests procurement data from AI agents, classifies and normalizes documents using LLM processing, and pushes structured data into a government sales intelligence platform. Built on AWS with SQS-driven async processing and OpenAI integration.
- Designed a 5-stage document intelligence pipeline: ingress, batch decomposition, schema validation, LLM classification, and normalized data push to Navigator
- Built SQS-driven async processing with dead-letter queues, idempotent operations, and automatic retry logic for reliable high-volume document handling
- eRepublic Events Portal - The eRepublic Events Portal is a platform that allow a deeply integrated experience for eRepublic event attendees and sponsors.
- Revolutionized eRepublic's sponsorship outreach and management through task automation and bespoke user experiences designed to drive engagement and revenue
- A highly scalable and maintainable application using Vue and Laravel
- Government Navigator - Government Navigator is a go-to-market sales and marketing intelligence platform tailored for state, local, and education IT vendors. By leveraging millions of data signals and decades of procurement expertise, it delivers real-time insights from early buyer-intent and pre-RFP alerts to verified contacts, jurisdictional profiles, statewide IT contracts, and curated market briefings so clients can uncover emerging opportunities and focus on winning deals instead of doing the homework.
- Scaled platform to support hundreds of daily active users
- Led team of 4 developers through complete platform rebuild
- Badge Scanner - Badge Scanner is a native iOS and Android application that allows attendees at eRepublic's events to scan each-other's badges and quickly connect with each other.
- 'Write once, deploy anywhere' mobile application using Ionic and Angular
- Achieved excellent performance and scalability using SQLite for offline functionality
- eRepublic Registration Management System (ERMS) - ERMS is a Windows and OSX desktop application that allows the management of every aspect of the eRepublic event registration process.
- 'Write once deploy anywhere' cross-platform Windows and OSX desktop application using Electron and Typescript
- Used SQLite for local data storage and syncing with Salesforce, allowing for full offline capabilities
- DevOps Infrastructure Solution - Engineered comprehensive DevOps solution optimizing workflows and reducing bugs.
- Reduced deployment-related bugs by 60% through automated testing
- Integrated CRM solutions with internal platforms
- eRepublic CMS & Website Solutions - Built and deployed multiple website and CMS solutions for eRepublic publications.
- Deployed multiple high-traffic publication websites
- Built custom CMS solutions tailored to editorial workflows
Helped reengineer MasterQueue a monolith On-Prem web application to a secure distributed cloud platform. Developed and implemented security and stability focused policies and coding practices leading to rapid audit compliance.
Key Projects:
- MasterQueue - Masterqueue is a cloud-based SaaS contact-management platform that automates and optimizes late-stage collections, skip-tracing, and repossession workflows by consolidating public-record data into a single source and eliminating manual, copy-and-paste processes. It embeds compliance checks (FDCPA, HIPAA, SOC 2) and provides data-driven contact-strategy analytics so financial institutions and government agencies can locate the right parties, streamline outreach, and reduce operational costs.
- Successfully migrated legacy monolithic application to cloud architecture
- Implemented security-focused policies and coding practices
Built and deployed many website and CMS solutions for eRepublic's publications. Built web-based productivity tools that integrate CRM solutions with external systems. Working on efficient facilitation of webinars, white papers, and other digital products.
New Paradigm Web Development
Founder & Lead Developer
Remote
Independent web development consultancy specializing in custom web applications, e-commerce solutions, digital transformation projects and mobile applications. Focused on delivering innovative solutions using modern technologies and agile development practices.
Key Projects:
- AI Charts - AI-powered flowchart, ERD, and swimlane diagram builder with a built-in AI assistant and an MCP server exposing 18+ tools for external AI integration. Works with any OpenAI-compatible LLM — no vendor lock-in.
- Designed and built a composable MCP server with 18+ tools enabling any AI assistant to create and manipulate diagrams programmatically
- Implemented agentic tool-calling loops where the AI assistant iteratively builds charts through multi-step function calls — add nodes, edges, groups, validate, and auto-layout in a single conversation turn
- AI Sound - AI-native audio editor built as a modern replacement for Audacity, with LLM integration at its core. Features multi-track editing, AI transcription, speaker diarization, semantic search, and a full MCP server for external AI assistant integration.
- Architected an MCP server that exposes all audio editing operations as composable tools — AI assistants can import, trim, mix, transcribe, and export without understanding audio internals
- Built AI-powered transcription pipeline with word-level timestamps and speaker diarization that integrates directly with the editing timeline
- Therapy Buddy - Therapy Buddy is a cutting edge AI assisted special therapy application for patients and therapists to collaborate with specialized therapy sessions.
- Therapy Buddy is a highly scalable Amplify + OpenAI application that scales from nearly zero to practically infinite users with zero
- OpenAI integration to use the OpenAI API to provide high quality AI assisted therapy sessions
- Falconry Journal - Falconry Journal is a cross-platform mobile app built with Angular and the Ionic framework, delivering a native-like experience on both iOS and Android from a single codebase.
- Scaled the application to support 5,000+ daily active users and millions of concurrent events
- Built for cross-platform deployment using Ionic and Angular
- RSVP - RSVP is a new approach to recorded interviews allowing a group of editors to create an interview series for users to complete and share with their audience.
- Built a cross-platform mobile video app using React and Typescript
- Used Capacitor to build native applications for iOS and Android
Featured Projects
AI Sound
ActiveSolo Developer | Mar 2026 - Present
AI-native audio editor built as a modern replacement for Audacity, with LLM integration at its core. Features multi-track editing, AI transcription, speaker diarization, semantic search, and a full MCP server for external AI assistant integration.
- Architected an MCP server that exposes all audio editing operations as composable tools — AI assistants can import, trim, mix, transcribe, and export without understanding audio internals
- Built AI-powered transcription pipeline with word-level timestamps and speaker diarization that integrates directly with the editing timeline
- Implemented semantic search across transcribed audio content — find segments by meaning, not just keywords
AI Charts
ActiveSolo Developer | Mar 2026 - Present
AI-powered flowchart, ERD, and swimlane diagram builder with a built-in AI assistant and an MCP server exposing 18+ tools for external AI integration. Works with any OpenAI-compatible LLM — no vendor lock-in.
- Designed and built a composable MCP server with 18+ tools enabling any AI assistant to create and manipulate diagrams programmatically
- Implemented agentic tool-calling loops where the AI assistant iteratively builds charts through multi-step function calls — add nodes, edges, groups, validate, and auto-layout in a single conversation turn
- Built with full LLM provider abstraction — works identically with Ollama (local), OpenAI, Groq, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint with zero code changes
GTZenda
ActiveLead Developer | Sep 2025 - Present
Enterprise document intelligence pipeline that ingests procurement data from AI agents, classifies and normalizes documents using LLM processing, and pushes structured data into a government sales intelligence platform. Built on AWS with SQS-driven async processing and OpenAI integration.
- Designed a 5-stage document intelligence pipeline: ingress, batch decomposition, schema validation, LLM classification, and normalized data push to Navigator
- Built SQS-driven async processing with dead-letter queues, idempotent operations, and automatic retry logic for reliable high-volume document handling
- Integrated OpenAI for automated document classification, category extraction, and content summarization of procurement records
Therapy Buddy
ActiveSolo Developer | Feb 2025 - Present
Therapy Buddy is a cutting edge AI assisted special therapy application for patients and therapists to collaborate with specialized therapy sessions.
- Therapy Buddy is a highly scalable Amplify + OpenAI application that scales from nearly zero to practically infinite users with zero
- OpenAI integration to use the OpenAI API to provide high quality AI assisted therapy sessions
- A cutting edge AI application that allows therapists to securely run specialized guided sessions with their patients.
Recent Publications
AWS Lays off 14k Workers and Blames it on AI Automation, I call Bullshit.
I believe the layoffs at AWS have less to do with AI automation directly and more to do with their failure to match services like OpenAI and Google in the race to provide AI platforms that just work...
The Future of AI Isn’t a Chatbot: Where the Real Value Lies.
ShitGTP - WAN 2.2 and Qwen ImageEvery tech CEO and C-suite executive right now is absolutely foaming at the mouth with lust for anything labeled “AI,” preferably with a sleek chat box where you can...
The Last 20% Problem; Why AI Still Isn’t ‘It,’ Just Another Useful Tool
The biggest issue I see with AI as it stands in August 2025 is that it cannot do the last 20%. If you’re not familiar the 80/20 problem or the Pareto Principle has been frequently referenced by...
Memory and Prompt Management in AI Therapy: An Architectural Overview
Building an AI therapy assistant that feels as natural and continuous as an in-person therapy session requires carefully managing the AI’s memory and prompts. In a real therapy session, a therapist...
3 Strategies to Combat The Real Danger of Burnout in AI Assisted Software Development
I have increasingly found myself fighting the symptoms of burnout when I sit down to do development work, and have noticed this trend increase the more effective I become using AI tools to assist in...