Gordon Tillman
Principal Platform Engineer
Humble, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolGordon Tillman is a Principal Platform Engineer with two decades of software development experience and a deep focus on cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, and automation. He has led migrations from monolithic systems to modular, containerized architectures and implemented GitOps and Cluster API-driven operations to make clusters declarative and secure, including IL5 deployments. Gordon pairs hands-on engineering (Go, Docker, K8s) with mentoring across teams, improving developer productivity and operational resilience at organizations from Synacor to Rebellion Defense and Radius Method. His background spans enterprise messaging, cloud storage platforms, and high-performance assessment systems, and he has a long history of modernizing legacy toolchains—e.g., moving Perforce to GitHub and dockerizing development environments. A former Navy fire-control technician with a BS in Mathematics/Computer Science/Physics, he brings disciplined systems thinking and a penchant for open-source solutions to meet academic, government, and commercial needs.
11 years of coding experience
40 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mathematics Computer Science Physics, BS Mathematics Computer Science Physics at University of Houston
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Github Skills (45)
jlink10
nginx-conf10
sarif10
mailbox10
zimbra10
collaboration10
php9
delta9
administration9
build-automation8
build-system7
nginx7
realms6
aspell6
docker-container6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Zimbra/docker-zcs-dev-machine
Aug 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:152 commits, 2 PRs, 75 pushes in 1 year 7 months
preconfigureddocker-imagedocker
Zimbra/simioj
Jun 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:63 commits, 6 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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