Summary
Tim Bulger is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer with 15+ years designing and operating resilient, secure enterprise networks and cloud-native platforms. He blends deep network protocol and hardware expertise (BGP, OSPF, MPLS, F5, Cisco, Juniper) with software-driven automation—Python, Ruby, Ansible, Docker, Grafana—to deliver observable, scalable systems. Tim has led large re-architectures and monitoring initiatives across finance, e-commerce, gaming, and security firms, reducing manual toil and lifting availability for global services. He builds bespoke tooling and training products (including Capture The Packet) and contributes creative projects on GitHub spanning networking, data, graphs, and generative art. Colleagues know him for pragmatic, goal-oriented solutions and a willingness to share hard-earned operational lessons. Based in Austin, he pairs low-level packet-and-protocol fluency with platform-level engineering to solve complex reliability and security challenges.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
School of Hard Knocks