Tim Kendrick
TypeScript/React/Rust Software Engineer
Web timkendrick.co.uk / LinkedIn timrbkendrick / Github timkendrick / Email timkendrick@gmail.com
Overview
Product-driven hands-on developer with two decades’ experience across multiple industries. I’m highly self-motivated, a fast learner and a committed team member with excellent problem‑solving skills and a keen eye for detail and aesthetics.
Equally comfortable building pixel-perfect UIs, robust frameworks and libraries, or time-saving automation utilities and tooling, with proven experience owning ambitious projects from start to finish. I love to tackle big problems and am passionate about developing innovative solutions to formidable technical challenges.
Frameworks / Technologies
Strong expertise in TypeScript, React, Rust, WASM, Node.js, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSockets, RxJS. I particulary enjoy building polished user interfaces, designing clean abstractions, and putting CS theory into practice to solve real-world use cases.
Outside work I take on ambitious personal coding projects and like to learn new concepts from first principles. In addition to end-to-end solo product builds, I’ve written my own clean-room implementations of programming language interpreters and compilers, regular expression engines, actor systems, observables, virtual DOM, etc, to gain a deep understanding of how everyday tools and frameworks are implemented, which helps inform the design decisions I make at work.
Selected Work History
- April 2024 - June 2025: Squarepoint Capital, Software Engineer
- October 2023 - April 2024: AG Grid, Senior Software Engineer
- April 2020 - August 2023: Marshall Wace, Lead UI Developer / Rust Software Engineer
- April 2019 - December 2019: 11:FS, Senior Software Engineer (freelance)
- September 2018 - March 2019: Canvas Composer, Solo developer
- August 2016 - August 2018: Deutsche Bank / DWS, Lead Developer (freelance)
- September 2013 - April 2015: Fathom, Lead Developer
- February 2013 - August 2013: R/GA London, Senior Front‑End Developer (freelance)
- August 2011 - January 2013: Burberry, Senior Front‑End Developer (freelance)
- Summer 2006 - February 2010: Ralph, ActionScript Developer
Selected Open Source Projects
Academic History
- 2005 - 2008: Trinity College, University of Cambridge (BA degree in Philosophy)
- 2003 - 2005: Sevenoaks School, International Baccalaureate Diploma (45 out of 45, top 0.19% of students worldwide)
Selected Job Roles and Responsibilities
Squarepoint Capital (April 2024 - June 2025)
Led the design and implementation of a greenfield timeseries data visualisation platform with extensible query/transformation DSL and async runtime, live code editor, custom remote debugging protocol, modular UI and user-contributed plugin ecosystem. Primary contributor to Rust / React / GraphQL and Python tiers of the stack.
AG Grid (October 2023 - April 2024)
Building developer tools and core features for the market-leading open source datagrid/charts library (ag-grid.com). Created a codemod toolkit and associated AST manipulation libraries.
Marshall Wace (April 2020 - August 2023)
Lead UI developer (2020 - 2022)
Joined a delivery-focused product team building the company’s flagship internal portfolio management suite and associated component library. Promoted to lead UI dev, where reponsibilities included React UI development, tooling, and DevOps/infra. Increasing back-end responsibilities led to a dedicated role developing streaming technologies for distributed graph systems.
Rust Software Engineer (2022 onwards)
Led the design and implementation of an open source reactive programming language (see promo site for details). Use on a production system led to codebase size reduction from 15K LOC to 5K. I wrote the compiler/interpreter/devtools in Rust, including both proprietary VM bytecode and WebAssembly back-ends, and accompanying actor-based async server runtime.
11:FS (March 2019 - December 2019)
Lead TypeScript / React Native developer building a greenfield mobile app UI for a US retail bank’s new challenger offering. Singlehandedly developed a fully-functioning prototype app within three weeks of arrival, with entire polished V1 release in users’ hands within less than three months.
Canvas Composer (September 2018 - March 2019)
Solo project building a modular IDE for rapid development of React applications (canvascomposer.com). Intuitive UI builder allows toggling between visual drag-and-drop workspace and source code editor. Component library plugins and integrated zero-config build tools and allow rapid application prototyping within a graphical interface. Extensive static JSX source analysis of existing code allows prototypes to be seamlessly integrated within a real codebase.
Deutsche Bank / DWS (August 2016 - August 2018)
Lead architect/developer on a graph-based streaming data framework used to power data-driven front-end applications across DWS. Project responsibilities included product direction, API/architecture design, core library implementation, development of bespoke unit-testing framework and browser plugin for developer tools.
Fathom (September 2013 - April 2015)
Lead UI developer for a real‑time corporate bond trading platform for Tradeweb and accompanying component suite. Responsibilities included application architecture, development of in‑house component library, performance tuning/profiling, internal build tools, technical leadership.
Burberry (August 2011 - January 2013)
UI development for all interactive experiences on burberry.com, creation of in-house JS/CSS Framework (used across all campaign sites, live streamed fashion shows, press kits and in‑house tools), development of in-house internationalization tools, automation / build process improvements.