Welcoming Tim Denk, our new Senior Software Engineer

We’re thrilled to share the news that Tim has joined zymtrace.

Tim is a software engineer based in Stuttgart, Germany.

Before joining zymtrace, he worked at Deloitte innoWake as the tech lead for their product team. There, he focused on automated transpilation and migration of legacy software applications. Performance is critical in this domain, since migrating an entire application demands careful attention to efficiency.

Beyond his professional work, Tim started building a pure Rust POSIX-compatible general-purpose kernel and operating system several years ago. The project spans TLS support, preemptive multitasking, a custom driver architecture, and more, reflecting a deep understanding of the x86-64 architecture and low-level systems programming. This kind of expertise is a natural fit for zymtrace, where profiling at the kernel level and interacting closely with hardware are at the core of what we do.

More about Tim

How did you get into software engineering?

I started programming back in school, and it’s been a hobby ever since. Even after a full day of coding at work, I’d go home and continue working on personal projects. Software engineering has always been more than just a job for me. It’s something I genuinely enjoy doing in my free time as well.

If not in tech, what would you be doing?

It’s not something I would have considered right after school, but if I had to decide now, I’d probably be a baker. I really enjoy baking in my free time, especially bread and the like.

What excites you most about working on zymtrace?

The tech stack is a big draw for me. Working with Go and Rust is something I’m really excited about, especially since I almost exclusively use Rust in my personal projects.

Beyond that, I love tackling hard-to-solve problems, and zymtrace has plenty of those. What really appeals to me is the focus on low-level system interaction and programming, which is a refreshing change from the application-level work I’ve done before.