About Me

Tim Alby

Hello, I'm Tim, a french passionate senior software engineer, product manager and advisor with a strong startup and product culture.
I have 10+ years of experience as a full-stack web developer & product manager and love creating useful product that live on the internet.
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Thanks to an extensive experience working in startups in diverse positions, I have a strong understanding of the product side as well as a full-stack developer proficiency. This dual expertise allows me to lead and overview projects from all angles. I can work solo or help setting up a cross-functional team to achieve your project’s goals.

I’m a true full-stack developer: proficient in databases (Postgres, Mongo, BigQuery) and on the backend (Node, Ruby) as well as the frontend (React, Backbone, Vanilla JS). I’m working with different web framework (Remix, NextJs, NestJS, Rails).

I am used to recognize the needs of different actors (users, staff, investors) as well as the technical constraints to deliver projects successfully: technically efficient, functional and stable over time. As much as possible I prefer to deploy early and iterate.


I was the first employee at Overleaf and evolved with the company and its product throughout their growth (today 10M users, 60 employees). First employed in London, I became a freelancer working remotely as a digital nomad and took on different roles, ending up as a principal engineer and team lead.

Since then I’ve been working as a freelance on multiple projects spanning different industries, from MVP to mature SaaS.

I have developed pgTop, a helpful tool to troubleshoot PostgreSQL databases, usable via the command line or as a Slack bot.

When I’m not working you’ll probably find me outdoors hiking, rock-climbing or kitesurfing.


I work as a freelancer, remotely from France and around. Get in touch (timothee@alby.fr) for:

  • creation of a MVP
  • advices ahead of starting your project
  • help managing an ongoing project
  • database performance audit
  • developing or improving of a full-features web app
  • and more…