Hi, I'm

Timothy Lock

Backend & Platform Engineer at Electronic Arts

Go / Golang Kubernetes Docker Terraform AWS GCP Azure Microservices Distributed Systems REST APIs SQL Redis CI/CD Argo CD GitOps Helm Platform Engineering Observability API Gateway AIOps Incident Response

I build reliable backend systems, Kubernetes platforms, and cloud infrastructure for products used at scale.

main.go

                            
                            package main
                        
                            type Engineer struct {
                        
                              Name     string
                        
                              Company  string
                        
                              Location string
                        
                            }
                        
                            func main() {
                        
                              tim := Engineer{
                        
                                Name:     "Timothy Lock",
                        
                                Company:  "Electronic Arts",
                        
                                Location: "Seattle",
                        
                              }
                        
                            }

main.go

                        
                        package main
                    
                        type Engineer struct {
                    
                          Name     string
                    
                          Company  string
                    
                          Location string
                    
                        }
                    
                        func main() {
                    
                          tim := Engineer{
                    
                            Name:     "Timothy Lock",
                    
                            Company:  "Electronic Arts",
                    
                            Location: "Seattle",
                    
                          }
                    
                        }

Experience

Electronic Arts Current

Software Engineer · Platform Engineering · Oct 2023–Present

Building next-generation Kubernetes operators in Go to automate cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, Azure, and on-prem clusters that power online services for millions of players.

Splashthat (now Cvent)

Software Engineer · Backend & APIs · Sep 2021–Oct 2023

Rebuilt authentication and API gateway infrastructure handling 100% of platform traffic; developed Go microservices, REST APIs, intelligent rate limiting, SQL performance improvements, and Salesforce, Marketo, and HubSpot integrations.

Wattpad

Software Engineer · Backend & Distributed Systems · Jun 2019–Sep 2021

Built distributed backend microservices serving 90 million users and 80,000+ requests per second using Go, Redis, MySQL, and Amazon Aurora; created image moderation systems processing 3M+ images monthly.

University of Toronto

Computer Science · Software Engineering & Distributed Systems

Earned an Honours Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a focus on software engineering and distributed systems.

Timothy Lock

Experience

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