Timothy Chen

Bio

Tim is the Managing Partner at Essence VC, with a decade of experience leading engineering in enterprise infra and open source communities / companies. Prior to Essence, Tim was the SVP of Engineering at Cosmos, a popular open source blockchain SDK. Prior to Cosmos, Tim cofounded Hyperpilot with Stanford Professor Christos Kozyrakis leveraging decades of research to disrupt the enterprise infrastructure space, which later exited to Cloudera. Prior to Hyperpilot, Tim was early employee at Mesosphere and CloudFoundry. Tim is also active in the open source space as an Apache member.

Career

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	Essence Venture Capital Data infrastructure and developer tools specialist fund. Managing Partner Seattle From Dec 2019 Email: [email protected]
	Hyperpilot - founder N/A (past)
	Microsoft Corp Software company focused on computing through its various product divisions. Software Development Engineer (past) From Dec 2008 to Dec 2010
	VMware Inc Provider of virtualisation solutions Member of Technical Staff III (past) CloudFoundry Seattle From Feb 2012 to Feb 2013
	Cosmos Internet of blockchains. N/A (past)