Tim Cochran most recently served as a Principal at Amazon, where he worked on driving AI adoption across teams and contributed to Amazon’s software builder experience initiatives. Before that, he spent years as Technical Director and Head of the Scaleup Group at Thoughtworks, leading a team that helped high-growth companies overcome technical, product, and people-related scaling bottlenecks, drawing on over twenty years of experience across start-ups and large enterprises in retail, financial services, and government. He’s a well-known voice on developer effectiveness, having written for Martin Fowler’s site on topics like engineering productivity metrics and startup onboarding, and appeared on the InfoQ Engineering Culture podcast to discuss developer effectiveness.
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Guidance paperWhen Coding Is Free, Where Is the Bottleneck?
RolePrincipal, Amazon Software Builder Experience
RoleHead of Scaleup Group
RoleTechnical Director
RoleMarket Technical Principal
RoleLead Consultant
RoleSoftware Developer