HEAD OF ENGINEERING / TELLEN
PLAYER ONE
Walt
Zimmerman
Head of Engineering at Tellen
I’m Walt. I lead engineering teams and still like building things. Most of my career has been spent turning difficult audit, risk, and compliance problems into software people can actually use.
Off the clock, I read, run, play games, and show up loudly as a cheer dad.
- reader
- gamer
- runner
- cheer dad
- 03
Tellen
Head of Engineering
Leading the engineering organization building AI infrastructure and tools for accounting and audit work.
- 02
AuditBoard / Optro
Early engineer → engineering leader
Helped build and scale the product from its early days, then led platform work through major growth.
- 01
Startups
Full-stack builder
Built APIs, infrastructure, integrations, internal tools, and product experiences across SOXHUB, Oomami, and BandPass.
- reading ·
The Scout Mindset
Julia Galef
Seek the truth and drop your identity.
LOADING AUDIBLE SHELF…
- 01
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
- 02
Fooled by Randomness
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Really the entire Incerto.
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Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
- 04
How Markets Fail
John Cassidy
- 05
How Big Things Get Done
Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner
- 01
Final Fantasy VI
Square, 1994
- 02
Baldur's Gate 3
Larian Studios, 2023
- 03
Final Fantasy VII
Square, 1997
- 04
Fallout: New Vegas
Obsidian Entertainment, 2010
- 05
Mass Effect 2
BioWare, 2010
“It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.”