Timothy Strimple

Built and lead national cloud practice, growing the team from 8 to 60+ consultants across enterprise and government engagements. Establish engineering patterns, delivery frameworks, and technical standards across the practice. Lead cloud modernization engagements where the real work is architecture: understanding how client systems are designed, restructuring them for cloud-native services, and helping teams adopt patterns that sustain results beyond the engagement.

• Grew practice from 8 regional consultants to 60+ national team. Hire, mentor, and develop engineers and technical leads across cloud, AI, and software development.
• Selected as founding member of enterprise GenAI Tiger Team. Drive AI adoption strategy, evaluate emerging technologies, and evangelize responsible AI practices to executive stakeholders across client organizations.
• Lead architect for $10M+ Azure migration spanning 6000+ servers across 15 semi-independent state agencies. Orchestrate 50+ person multi-vendor team (onshore/offshore consultants + state IT resources), achieving 98%+ on-time delivery.
• Architected enterprise-scale Azure landing zones following Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework. Implemented automated governance (Azure Policy), security baselines (Defender for Cloud), and hub-and-spoke network topologies across healthcare, finance, and government sectors.
• Designed API management platforms (Azure APIM, Apigee) for healthcare and finance organizations. Established governance frameworks for API lifecycle management, security policies, and partner integration.
• Established IaC standards (Bicep, Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions) enabling self-service infrastructure provisioning with built-in compliance controls. Created reusable modules for 60+ consultant practice.
• Design and implement cost chargeback models, hybrid connectivity (ExpressRoute, VPN), and multi-subscription governance frameworks
• Mentor consultants on cloud technology, AI implementation, client engagement strategies, and technical leadership

Promoted from Principal Architect to lead architecture across multiple organizations within Transamerica. Directed cloud adoption strategy in both Azure and AWS. Synthesized fragmented domain knowledge across isolated teams into cohesive enterprise architecture strategy.

• Led architecture team across four organizations, shifting from siloed teams to collaborative enterprise architecture model. Presented architectural roadmaps to C-level stakeholders to secure IT investment direction.
• Architected Finance department's migration from on-prem to Azure, driving shift from daily batch processing to real-time data streaming while reducing operational cost.
• Drove cultural transformation from top-down architecture to collaborative models, streamlining governance processes (ARB, change management, risk management) while maintaining finance regulatory compliance.

Helped Fortune 500 companies and startups rethink how they architect for the cloud. Most organizations treated cloud as VMs someone else manages. Pushed them toward event-driven design, stateless services, and serverless patterns that actually took advantage of cloud scaling. Maintained expertise across Azure, AWS, and GCP as part of the open-source technologies team.

• Worked directly with Fortune 500 engineering teams on cloud architecture for ML, IoT at scale (millions of devices), and Kubernetes microservices.
• Embedded at co-working spaces helping startups architect for serverless deployment on Azure. Drove adoption among developers traditionally hostile to Microsoft technologies through hackathons and hands-on technical support.
• Built and delivered training for Microsoft employees on AWS, Git/GitHub, and DevOps practices. Mentored Academy for College Hires and served as technical resource for open-source technologies.

Built the engineering team and delivery practices from scratch. Hired and grew the team from one to eight, established CI/CD and automated deployment, and owned the full technical stack from device drivers to web APIs to the public-facing platform.

• White-Label Kiosk Architecture: Designed an embedded webview architecture for health kiosks years before Electron existed. Recognized that the team had strong web developers but no Windows specialists, and built an architecture that turned that constraint into a strength -- enabling code reuse across web and kiosk products while supporting white-label customization.
• Health Analytics Platform: Designed health trend prediction and population analytics using ML algorithms. Deployed internet-connected kiosks to hundreds of grocery stores and healthcare facilities nationwide with cloud-based analytics and local fallback.
• Architecture Lessons: Led a monolith-to-services decomposition, then learned firsthand that service decomposition scales teams more than software. The added complexity of six independent services wasn't justified for a small team. This experience shapes how I evaluate architecture decisions today.