Timothy Appnel
Senior Principal Product Manager, Product Evangelist, Ansible at Red Hat
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarTimothy Appnel is a Senior Principal Product Manager and Product Evangelist for Ansible at Red Hat with over 30 years of corporate IT and startup experience. He drives Ansible’s integration with Kubernetes and OpenShift—especially Operator workflows—while creating workshops, presentations and campaigns to bring beginners and enterprises up the learning curve. A long-time open-source contributor, Tim has improved core Ansible modules and workshop automation (he’s even credited with shaping the synchronize module). Prior to Ansible he led engineering teams automating deployment and testing for electronic trading systems and ran his own cloud and web consultancy. Outside of software he co-founded the indie Oculus Magazine and was an early mover in Movable Type web publishing, reflecting a rare mix of technical leadership and community-building.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (23)
python10
configuration-management10
automation10
yaml10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
automations10
devops10
documentation10
jinja29
rsync9
nginx8
apache8
debug8
debugging8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/lightbulb
Aug 2015 - Apr 2018
Lightbulb has been deprecated and replaced by Ansible Workshops
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:157 commits, 168 PRs, 161 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Timothy primarily contributed to setting up and refining Ansible automation and workshops. They created custom module solutions, introduced roles and examples for Apache and Nginx, and added resources like configuration files and templates to workshops. The user also made updates to documentation, and cleaned up example files to ensure the automation was properly configured for different scenarios.
ansibleautomationlightbulbnetwork-automation
ansible/ansible-modules-core
Jan 2015 - Mar 2018
Ansible modules - these modules ship with ansible
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 PRs, 68 comments in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Timothy primarily contributed to the improvement and maintenance of the Ansible modules within the repository. They fixed bugs in modules, particularly related to error handling and timeouts. The user also updated documentation, applied native YAML syntax, and addressed grammatical errors in the module examples, showcasing a focus on code clarity and usability. Additionally, the user demonstrated the ability to configure and improve the synchronize module.
ansibleshipansible-modules
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