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Timothy Flechtner - Lead Operations Engineer

Timothy Flechtner

Executive Technology & Product Leader specializing in games, platforms, and real-time systems

Night Street GamesUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison23 Years ExperienceExecutive LevelWorks On-Site

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Engineering leader with gaming and fintech/trading-firm experience who built a sponsor-funded gaming rewards platform (AmEx-style) requiring integrations across Steam/Epic/Xbox/PlayStation and Discord. Emphasizes production-grade, 12-factor delivery with Terraform/Docker/CI/CD and automated testing, plus pragmatic org scaling and remote-team culture built on aligned autonomy and trust.

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Key Strengths

  • Built a tech roadmap aligned to a sponsor-funded gaming rewards business model
  • Executed multi-platform identity/account integrations (OAuth + non-OAuth workaround for PlayStation)
  • End-to-end ownership of delivery lifecycle (prototype → QA/load test → deploy → operate live service) on a small team
  • Implemented production-grade engineering practices (12-factor, prod-like dev environments, automated tests as spec)
  • Scaled/reshaped engineering culture in a startup by challenging AAA-studio process assumptions and improving alignment
  • Strong delegation focused on outcomes; enabled engineers to deliver superior solutions (legacy/new system interop example)
  • Remote-team effectiveness via trust-building, regular 1:1s, tight iteration loops, and cross-discipline demos

Reference Highlights

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  • Extremely competent in role
  • Extremely capable and very fast engineer
  • Effective engineer and manager
  • Strong at managing dependencies in challenging org structures
  • Understands organizational implications of technical work
  • Servant and transformative leadership style
  • Aligns team culture/tenets with business strategy
  • Good at defining customer needs and value
  • Provides good feedback and ideas
  • Builds strong team buy-in and alignment
  • Improves team clarity on what/how to work
  • Keen eye for scaling-related communication issues and inefficiencies
  • Proactive in surfacing and addressing cross-team issues
  • Strong advocate for team operational needs
  • Enables innovation through alignment
  • Generates product ideas that fit business strategy
  • Elevates people around him
  • Exceptional communication
  • Explains complex problems simply and clearly
  • Aligns teams and accelerates decisions
  • Calm and patient under uncertainty
  • Leads discussions to align stakeholders
  • Strong at splitting tasks, priorities, and deliverables across silos
  • Highly proactive planner (plans ahead of sprints/milestones)
  • Protects team from burnout through coherent planning
  • Effective focus and execution through diligence in planning
  • Handles high-pressure situations well
  • Grounded, pragmatic leadership (not 'ivory tower')
  • Ensures maintainability/cleanliness even with suboptimal tools

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Experience

Lead Operations EngineerNight Street Games · Sep 2024 – Present
Head of ProductHerolight · Jan 2023 – Jun 2024
Chief Technology OfficerHerolight · Jan 2022 – Jun 2024
Chief Technology OfficerPlayfull · May 2019 – Dec 2021
Senior Backend EngineerPlayfull · Nov 2018 – May 2019
Engineering ManagerChef · Jul 2017 – Nov 2018
CEOSymbiotic Entertainment · Apr 2017 – Jul 2017
CTOSymbiotic Entertainment · Mar 2016 – Apr 2017
Director, Integration and TestThe Walt Disney Company · Jun 2015 – Jul 2016
Director of Engineering: Back EndHauteLook (a Nordstrom Company) · Mar 2014 – Jun 2015
Product Manager: ServicesHauteLook (a Nordstrom Company) · Aug 2014 – Mar 2015
Engineering Manager: Front EndRiot Games · Jan 2013 – Sep 2013
Engineering Manager: Internal Development ServicesRiot Games · Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
Chief Information OfficerTradeLink LLC · Jul 2010 – Dec 2011
Manager: DevelopmentTradeLink LLC · Apr 2009 – Jul 2010
Manager: Applications DevelopmentTradeLink LLC · Mar 2004 – Apr 2009
Application DeveloperTradeLink LLC · Aug 2002 – Mar 2004

Education

University of Wisconsin–Madisonbachelor, Computer Science, Mathematics (1996)

Languages

English

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Timothy FlechtnerExecutive Technology & Product Leader specializing in games, platforms, and real-time systems