Tim Cavell

Staff Software Engineer · Austin, TX

Staff software engineer with 10 years of experience in scalable backend systems, high-throughput message processing, event-driven data platforms, identity and authentication infrastructure, deep client/OS integration across macOS, Windows, and Linux, and software supply-chain security.

Experience

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

Technical Skills

AI: Built agent skills for automated test-plan generation and code review enforcement; use AI daily across planning, implementation, review, monitoring, and incident response

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

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

Platform expertise: macOS internals and user management, Authorization Plug-ins, PAM stack, Endpoint Security, Windows credential providers and password management

Education

University of Arkansas
B.S. in Information Systems (Business Administration), minor in Computer Science, magna cum laude, 2012–2016

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