Tim Goodwin

# Information

I am a 2nd year PhD student in the LSD lab at UC Santa Cruz where I am generously supported by the NSF CSGrad4US fellowship. I am broadly interested in distributed systems and the abstractions we use to build them. Lately, I’ve been focusing on cloud-native programming models and the challenges they present to developers.

I lead a small engineering team at Impossible Effort, where we are currently building a new social tool for organizing and archiving community events. I also record and produce music as Nuns Honey - have a listen!

Contact

timg.goodwin@gmail.com

Github * Last.fm * Strava

# Publications

• What goes wrong in serverless runtimes? A survey of bugs in Knative Serving.
  Tim Goodwin, Andrew Quinn, Lindsey Kuper.
  SESAME ‘23

• Performance Analysis of WebRTC-based Video Conferencing.
  Bart Jansen, Timothy Goodwin, Varun Gupta, Fernando Kuipers, Gil Zussman.
  IFIP Performance ‘17

# Projects

• obsidian-jot (Dec 2023)
  A macOS menu-bar app that allows you to append a quick thought to an Obsidian daily note (or some other digital notebook) via a global hotkey. Helps you avoid even the slightest context switch between applications so you can persist a thought into your note system almost as quickly as you can think it. I needed this so I made it!

• running.build (Jul 2023)
  A web app to help plan and track the training blocks for the running events in your life. More of a “birds-eye view” than Strava, and makes it easy to plan out future runs around your weekly mileage targets.

• crd-tweet (Mar 2023)
  A fully peer-to-peer twitter prototype built with CRDTs that seeks to explore what an entirely decentralized, local-first social media platform may look like.

• Happenings (2019 - present)
  A social tool for organizing and archiving community events.

• WebRTC-Analyzer (Spring 2017)
  A simple video chat server application instrumented to evaluate the performance of the WebRTC protocol under various network conditions.

• The Netflix Stream (May 2017)
  Essay on the Netflix Stream as a media artifact that explores the connections between internet topology, streaming infrastructure, consumer subjectivity, and environmental consequence.

• Blur (Dec 2016)
  A simple, C-like programming language for fast image manipulation and ASCII art creation.

• my ad net (Aug 2016)
  A live updating visualization of every ad server that exchanges data with my apartment’s local area network. A reciprocal tracking of the systems that collect personal information to serve targeted advertisements. (system offline, site served statically as of 2018).

• birdhouse (Apr 2016)
  Website for the Alpha Delta Phi society’s birdhouse event that was held on April 16, 2016.

• what are you doing (Jul 2015)
  An instant message love journey involving you and someone else. Please use Chrome for best experience.

• Went To Japan (May 2015)
  A photo essay and JPEG encoding experiment as my final project for the Columbia University Japan Study Tour.