Tim Darnell
Principal Virtualization Specialist Solutions Architect
Estes Park, Colorado, United States
Summary
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SeniorTim Darnell is a Principal Virtualization Specialist and Solutions Architect with two decades of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operationalizing enterprise virtualization and cloud-native platforms. A rare blend of VMware deep-dive credentials (multiple VCP/VCAPs across DCD/DCA/DTD) and Kubernetes mastery (CKS/CKA/CKAD), he helps organizations modernize infrastructure with Open Source and Red Hat technologies while proving value through POCs. He has led product and technical marketing efforts for Portworx and driven architecture and automation work integrating OpenStack, vSphere, and storage appliances at Hitachi Vantara. Known for practical automation—he once wrote extensive tooling to save weeks of manual labor during datacenter migrations—Tim combines troubleshooting rigor with a results-first delivery mindset. Based in Estes Park, CO, he thrives at the intersection of technical strategy, sales enablement, and hands-on engineering for large enterprises and partners.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (6)
pattern9
aws6
gcp5
terraform5
kubernetes4
gitops3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
0xDEADBEEF-td/PX-TME-kubestr
Jan 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:28 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
0xDEADBEEF-td/katacoda-scenarios-1
Oct 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:39 PRs, 55 pushes, 35 branches in 2 months
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