Tim is a Senior Staff Engineer in VMware's Open Source Technology Center with over 25 years in open source. He works as an open source developer advocate and contributor to Kubernetes (current Code of Conduct Committee elected member; past SIG Release co-chair and WG LTS co-organizer). Prior work includes Linux kernel/drivers/distributions, software update, Android, OpenStack, and an open source golang based orchestrator for containers and VMs that wasn't Kubernetes. He has spoken at multiple KubeCon + CloudNativeCon's, many open source conferences and networking/mentoring events.