Tim is Director of Engineering at Twilio, where he leads the teams responsible for building Twilio's simple, powerful telecommunications API.  He is passionate about building & designing great products, growing engineering teams that exceed expectations, and creating nimble, scalable engineering processes.  Before Twilio, Tim spent 12 years at cloud-computing's polar opposite: Pixar, where high-performance desktop-computing is king, and where Tim led teams that did everything from film production to internal tools development.