About

Built by operators.

Timofi started as an internal tool at Shaw and Partners — a nearshore engineering firm that built software for American startups and Fortune 50 clients. After managing 630+ professionals across Brazil, Ukraine, and the Philippines, we built what we wished had existed.

10+

Years building

630+

Professionals managed

3

Countries operated in

60K+

Profiles on platform

The team

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Chris Shaw

Founder

San Francisco-based. Built Shaw and Partners from 2008 to 2024 — engineering teams across three countries, 630+ people managed. Has been building Timofi for over a decade. Led AI/ML work including the lie detection system that powers the platform.

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Lucas Rego

Technical Lead

Brazil-based engineer and second-most prolific contributor to Timofi. Architected V2, built the AI agent orchestration, MCP API layer, hiring pipeline, and multi-language testing infrastructure.

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