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Timothy Flechtner
Executive Technology & Product Leader specializing in games, platforms, and real-time systems
Lead Operations Engineer23 years experienceExecutiveVideo GamesFinancial ServicesFinTech
ScreenedReferences VerifiedIdentity VerifiedStrongly Recommended
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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.
Experience
Lead Operations EngineerNight Street Games
Head of ProductHerolight
Chief Technology OfficerHerolight
Chief Technology OfficerPlayfull
Senior Backend EngineerPlayfull
Engineering ManagerChef
CEOSymbiotic Entertainment
CTOSymbiotic Entertainment
Director, Integration and TestThe Walt Disney Company
Director of Engineering: Back EndHauteLook (a Nordstrom Company)
Product Manager: ServicesHauteLook (a Nordstrom Company)
Engineering Manager: Front EndRiot Games
Engineering Manager: Internal Development ServicesRiot Games
Chief Information OfficerTradeLink LLC
Manager: DevelopmentTradeLink LLC
Manager: Applications DevelopmentTradeLink LLC
Application DeveloperTradeLink LLC
Education
University of Wisconsin, Madisonbachelor, Computer Science, Mathematics (1996)
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
Strongly Recommended
- 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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