Timothy Krell / Director of EngineeringHammonton, New Jersey

I build the systemsbehind ambitious products.

Twenty years translating complexity into reliable software, stronger teams, and clear technical direction across gaming, Web3, healthcare, and service operations.

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$300K+annual cloud run-rate reduction

15peak engineering org / 7 direct reports

8 figuresuser assets migrated with audit oversight

20 yearsbuilding critical systems

Liber I-V / Selected work

Systems with consequence.

Products where architecture, interaction, operations, and trust meet.

Current scope15-person engineering organization / 7 direct reports
Operating thesisTechnical judgment should compound through people and systems.
Primary mandateDirector-level product and platform engineering leadership.
01Product surfacesImpostors / Neo Tokyo
02Decision systemsEpoch Planner
03Trust boundaryStaking / migration
04Portfolio leverageCloud modernization
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Impostors Genesis Origins artwork

Game platform / digital ownership / 2024-2026

Impostors Genesis

A cohesive player portal for a complex universe of on-chain assets.

Created one coherent home for multiple collectible types and player workflows.

Decision noteStructured the portal around task-focused routes for inventory, eligibility, claims, and origin assets.
My role
Technical direction, architecture, hands-on engineering
Signal
Created one coherent home for multiple collectible types and player workflows.

A TanStack Start and Cloudflare application spanning wallet authentication, inventory, claims, eligibility, codex content, and composed land previews.

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Epoch Planner wordmark and modular icon system

DeFi operations / decision systems / 2024-2026

Epoch Planner

A synchronized operating surface for decisions that used to live across tools.

Eliminated approximately 10 hours of repetitive manual work each week.

Decision noteModeled organizations as workspaces with explicit roles and administrative boundaries.
My role
Architecture, product design partnership, engineering leadership
Signal
Eliminated approximately 10 hours of repetitive manual work each week.

A multi-workspace planning system that unifies heterogeneous DeFi data, assignments, history, migration, and administrative workflows.

Open case study
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Neo Tokyo citizen artwork arranged in a diagonal grid

Community platform / contract work / 2021-2026

Neo Tokyo Tools

Infrastructure for a community to discover, trade, play, and organize.

Supported an active Web3 community through multiple product generations.

Decision noteBuilt and maintained tools around citizen identity, profiles, discovery, and community participation.
My role
Contract engineer and community contributor
Signal
Supported an active Web3 community through multiple product generations.

A long-running community platform with citizen discovery, marketplaces, profiles, social features, games, lore, and on-chain integrations.

Open case study
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Public SuperVerse DAO staking interface with wallet connection and live total value locked

Financial systems / asset migration / 2022-2026

Staking & Distribution

Reliable reward infrastructure for systems responsible for real user funds.

Directed the secure migration of eight figures in user assets to new smart contracts.

Decision noteConnected a user-facing staking and migration portal to audited contract workflows and private server-side RPC infrastructure.
My role
Technical direction, migration oversight, systems engineering
Signal
Directed the secure migration of eight figures in user assets to new smart contracts.

A connected ecosystem of staking interfaces, Solidity contracts, historical chain reconstruction, migrations, snapshots, and resumable multisig distribution.

Open case study
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Architecture intervention diagram connecting cloud audit, caching, rightsizing, deployment changes, and annual savings

Cloud economics / engineering systems / 2024-2026

Platform Modernization

Less infrastructure spend, clearer dependencies, and faster delivery.

Reduced annual AWS and Cloudflare spend by more than $300,000.

Decision noteAudited usage, pricing, contracts, cache behavior, and always-on resources across providers.
My role
Director of Engineering and lead architect
Signal
Reduced annual AWS and Cloudflare spend by more than $300,000.

A portfolio-wide modernization of AWS and Cloudflare infrastructure, deployment systems, caching, and repository boundaries.

Open case study

Vita / Practice

Leadership that stays close to the work.

I move between executive decisions, system architecture, and implementation. The throughline is the same: make the difficult thing legible, then help people deliver it.

Direction

Engineering strategy, architecture, hiring, mentoring, budgets, vendors, C-level reporting

Application

TypeScript, React, TanStack Start, Node.js, Python, React Native, GraphQL

Platform

AWS, Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, Kubernetes, Terraform, PostgreSQL

Web3

EVM, Solidity, Foundry, staking, DeFi, smart-contract migrations and asset protection

Chronicle / 2006-present

Experience

2024-Present

Director of Engineering

Super Studios Inc.

Company lead engineer for an organization of up to 15 engineers, with seven direct reports across gaming and Web3/DeFi initiatives.

2022-2024

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Super Studios Inc.

Architected staking applications, minting and inventory portals, social reward tools, game APIs, and NFT marketplace systems.

2020-2022

Senior Full Stack Engineer & Engineering Manager

The Helper Bees

Managed and mentored engineers while modernizing healthcare products used by thousands of field workers.

2006-2020

Senior Software Engineer & IT Manager

Bethany Associates

Built the central operations platform supporting tens of thousands of customers across three states.

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Building something consequential?

I am exploring remote Director of Engineering roles where technical judgment, product architecture, and team development matter equally.

timothykrell@gmail.com