Tim Cavell

Staff Software Engineer · Austin, TX

I'm a software engineer working mostly in Go, focused on identity and authentication systems: distributed services, event-driven data platforms, and the infrastructure behind secure auth. I also have deep experience with client and OS-level integrations on macOS and Windows.

Experience

JumpCloud
Staff Software Engineer, 2025–Present
Senior Software Engineer, 2022–2025
Software Engineer, 2021–2022
General Motors
Software Engineer, 2016–2021

Tech

Languages: Go, Swift, C#, JavaScript / Node.js

Infrastructure: PostgreSQL, Kafka, MQTT, AWS (SQS, S3, EKS, IoT Core), Datadog, Terraform

Platform internals: macOS internals and user management, Authorization Plug-ins, PAM, Endpoint Security, Windows credential providers, passwordless auth, code signing

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