About Tim Rines

Tim Rines

I'll make this short and sweet. I grew up in Cary, North Carolina after my dad was transferred from MA with a company called Data General. He later worked for IBM and brought home one of the first IBM Aptiva PCs. I was hooked on PC gaming, networking, building gaming computers, and LAN parties. After college I went into sales, then telecommunications and rental investing in Charleston, SC, before circling back to the original hobby.

In March of 2020 I finished the in-person Software Engineering immersive at Flatiron School Manhattan, then came back to Charleston and started shipping products again.

I'm a product engineer at Kitbash, where I work on Cargo, the cross-platform 3D asset manager artists use in Unreal, Blender, Maya, and Cinema 4D. I also run ChucktownAI, building AI automation and custom web apps for Charleston businesses. If you have a project and I have spare time, reach out: tim@rines.io.

# person name Tim Rines url https://www.rines.io headline Product Engineer at KitBash3D location Charleston, South Carolina metropolitan area email tim@rines.io github https://www.github.com/tsrines linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/rines/ # now kitbash Product Engineer at Kitbash (KitBash3D, Jun 2024 to present). Building Cargo, a cross-platform 3D asset manager for Unreal, Blender, Maya, and Cinema 4D. chucktown Runs ChucktownAI. AI automation and custom web apps for Charleston businesses. # experience - Product Engineer, Kitbash. Jun 2024 to present (Remote from the Carolinas) - Founder, ChucktownAI. present (Charleston, SC) - Software Engineer II, Animoto. Jan 2022 to Sep 2023 (New York City metropolitan area) - Software Engineer, BIG HAPPY (New York) - Area Manager, Cellular Sales. Mar 2014 to Sep 2019 (Charleston, SC) # education - Flatiron School, Software Engineering Immersive (Finished in person, March 2020), Manhattan, NY - Appalachian State University, Boone, NC # current-page path /about title About Tim Rines descriptionBackground, education, and how Tim came back to software engineering. # projects - Kitbash https://kitbash.com. Building Cargo, the cross-platform 3D asset manager used by artists in Unreal, Blender, Maya, and Cinema 4D. - ChucktownAI https://chucktownai.com. AI automation and custom web apps for Charleston businesses. # when-to-use - Briefing a human or agent on who Tim is, what he has shipped, and how to reach him - Listing public work and contact facts for Kitbash, Cargo, and ChucktownAI - Calling public MCP tools (get_profile, list_projects, get_contact, get_links) # when-not-to - Inventing meetings, calendar events, quotes, or a phone number - Treating this site as ChucktownAI or Kitbash product support - Posting secrets into the public contact API or MCP # contact email tim@rines.io api POST https://www.rines.io/api/v1/contact JSON { name, email, message } mcp https://www.rines.io/mcp # files llms.txt https://www.rines.io/llms.txt llms-full https://www.rines.io/llms-full.txt docs https://www.rines.io/docs openapi https://www.rines.io/openapi.json briefing https://www.rines.io/for-agents cli curl -fsSL https://www.rines.io/rines.mjs | node -- help