Tim Ellison is a senior member of IBM’s technical staff based in Winchester, UK.  He has worldwide responsibility for cloud managed runtimes, and is an IBM Q Ambassador in the quantum computing program.

Prior to his current position Tim led teams developing integrated programming environments, compilers, and advanced hardware exploitation.  He has a long history in open source projects at the Apache Software Foundation and the Eclipse Foundation, and is an expert member on numerous industry groups.  He works closely with IBM clients and speaks publicly on quantum computing technology and its opportunities.

Tim holds degrees in Computer Science, and Computer System Design. He has a broad knowledge of high performance runtimes, security, language implementation and optimisation, open source methodologies, and applying new technology to difficult problems.