{"basics":{"name":"Tim Monzures","label":"Engineering leader \u00b7 Production AI \u00b7 Wharton MBA","image":null,"bg_image":null,"email":null,"phone":null,"url":"https:\/\/timmonzures.cv\/","location":{"address":null,"postal_code":null,"city":"San Francisco","country_code":"US","region":"CA"},"profiles":[{"network":"LinkedIn","username":"tmonzures","url":"https:\/\/linkedin.com\/in\/tmonzures","icon":null}],"actions":[]},"about":{"summary":"Tim Monzures is a San Francisco-based engineering leader, former Apple Senior Manager, Attrove founder and Wharton MBA. At Apple, I led a 25-person team across the US, China and India, deploying production software on manufacturing lines. At Attrove, I built a workplace AI product from architecture to paid use. I\u2019m focused on my next full-time role: leading teams that ship dependable AI products and growing the organization behind them. VP, Head or Director of Engineering, or the right CTO role. San Francisco, in person preferred. Attrove remains available as a working portfolio; active development is paused. My next role will have my full focus."},"media":[],"work":[{"name":"Attrove, Inc.","position":"Founder & Chief Executive Officer","type":"Founder","url":"https:\/\/attrove.com\/","start_date":"2024-03-01","end_date":null,"summary":"Solo founder. Built Attrove from architecture to paid use, including sales, support and on-call. The workplace AI product remains available as a working portfolio. Active development is paused; my next full-time role will have my full focus.","highlights":["Built permissioned workplace AI with hybrid retrieval, evaluations, APIs and webhooks.","Shipped interfaces for developers and agents through an SDK, MCP server and CLI.","Built labeled evaluation sets, regression gates and confidence checks for retrieval and AI behavior.","Owned product architecture, deployment, sales and support."],"city":"San Francisco","state":null,"country":"US"},{"name":"Apple Inc.","position":"Senior Manager, Systems Integration","type":"Full-time","url":"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/","start_date":"2010-03-01","end_date":"2023-12-31","summary":"Deployed production software running 24\/7 on manufacturing lines. Senior Manager, Systems Integration was my final role during the 2010\u20132023 tenure.","highlights":["Led 25 engineers across the US, China and India. Opened the India site and developed engineering managers.","Led technical deployment strategy for more than $100M in cumulative savings across several iPhone generations, working with Instrument Engineering and Operations.","Deployed in-house test systems, shortened test cycles and reduced factory stations.","Supported manufacturing systems operating across roughly one million devices a day."],"city":"Cupertino","state":null,"country":"US"},{"name":"Lockheed Martin","position":"Systems Engineer","type":"Full-time","url":null,"start_date":"2008-10-01","end_date":"2009-09-30","summary":"Systems engineering work in the defense industry.","highlights":[],"city":null,"state":null,"country":null},{"name":"Apple","position":"Software Engineering Intern","type":"Internship","url":"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/","start_date":"2006-06-01","end_date":"2007-09-30","summary":"Software engineering internship at Apple.","highlights":[],"city":null,"state":null,"country":null}],"volunteer":[],"education":[{"institution":"The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania","url":"https:\/\/www.wharton.upenn.edu\/","area":"MBA for Executives","study_type":"Master of Business Administration","start_date":"2020-01-01","end_date":"2022-05-01","score":null,"courses":[],"city":"Philadelphia","state":null,"country":"United States of America"},{"institution":"Santa Clara University","url":"https:\/\/www.scu.edu\/","area":"Electrical Engineering","study_type":"Master of Science","start_date":null,"end_date":"2010-01-01","score":null,"courses":[],"city":"Santa Clara","state":null,"country":"United States of America"},{"institution":"Santa Clara University","url":"https:\/\/www.scu.edu\/","area":"Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering (double major); Mathematics minor","study_type":"Bachelor of Science","start_date":null,"end_date":"2008-01-01","score":null,"courses":null,"city":"Santa Clara","state":null,"country":"United States of America"}],"awards":[],"publications":[],"languages":[],"certificates":[],"skills":[{"name":"Agentic AI systems","keywords":["RAG architecture","retrieval tuning","LLM orchestration","agent tool design"]},{"name":"AI evaluation","keywords":["Labeled corpora","CI evaluation gates","statistical confidence bounds","regression detection"]},{"name":"MCP and APIs","keywords":["Model Context Protocol servers","REST API design","SDK authoring","signed webhooks"]},{"name":"Engineering leadership","keywords":["Manager of managers","distributed teams (US, China, India)","hiring","team leadership","global team management"]},{"name":"Enterprise programs","keywords":["Multi-tenant SaaS","SOC 2 Type I","tenant isolation","capital planning","program management"]},{"name":"Technical","keywords":["TypeScript","Node.js","Python","PostgreSQL","Redis","Azure","Pulumi","Docker","C++","infrastructure as code"]}],"interests":[],"references":[],"projects":[{"name":"Faster, Cheaper, Zero","type":"Selected writing","description":"A benchmark showed a 70% improvement. Fourteen of twenty runs had crashed. A note on AI evals, manufacturing discipline, and why failure is often the cheapest line on the dashboard.","highlights":[],"start_date":null,"end_date":null,"url":"https:\/\/blog.attrove.com\/p\/faster-cheaper-zero","preview_image":null},{"name":"I Got Promoted Away From the Keyboard","type":"Selected writing","description":"Management moved me farther from the keyboard. AI agents brought me back, then reminded me that vague work produces bad results regardless of who receives it.","highlights":[],"start_date":null,"end_date":null,"url":"https:\/\/blog.attrove.com\/p\/i-got-promoted-away-from-the-keyboard","preview_image":null},{"name":"Ten Years to Senior","type":"Selected writing","description":"AI can make junior engineers productive sooner. Judgment still needs reps, including the slow ones companies are newly tempted to automate away.","highlights":[],"start_date":null,"end_date":null,"url":"https:\/\/blog.attrove.com\/p\/ten-years-to-senior","preview_image":null},{"name":"Attrove","type":"Company","description":"A production communications-intelligence platform that watches work across email, chat, meetings, and calendar, then surfaces source-backed evidence when outcomes begin to slip.","highlights":["Production system","Six workplace connectors","API, TypeScript SDK, MCP, and webhooks","SOC 2 Type I"],"start_date":"2024-03-01","end_date":null,"url":"https:\/\/attrove.com\/","preview_image":null}],"links":[{"title":"npmjs","url":"https:\/\/npmjs.com\/~monzures"}],"locations":[]}