Tim Goodwin

# Information

I am a 3rd year PhD student in the LSD lab at UC Santa Cruz where I am generously supported by the NSF CSGrad4US fellowship. I’m 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

# Talks

• What if Kubernetes was a compiler target?
  Tim Goodwin, David Morrison.
  KubeCon North America ‘24

# Projects

• terrazas (Jan 2025)
  A weekend experiment with graph coloring and backtracking algorithms, inspired by the work of Mexican artist Eduardo Terrazas.

• kompile (Fall 2024)
  A Go compiler targeting Kubernetes applications. It transforms a monolithic app into a microservice architecture by extracting subroutines into microservices that are called over HTTP. Presented at KubeCon North America ‘24.

• obsidian-jot (Dec 2023)
  A macOS menu-bar app that allows you to append a quick thought to an Obsidian daily note via a global hotkey. Helps you avoid even the slightest context switch 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 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.