Tim Deboer
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Deboer is a Senior Principal Software Engineer and cloud lead architect with 15+ years designing developer tooling and enterprise platforms, currently driving developer experience work at Red Hat. He has led cross-functional teams at IBM and Red Hat to deliver cloud-native tooling—OpenShift Do (odo), Codewind, Tekton, GitOps, and CodeReady Workspaces—bridging IDEs, local container workflows, and Kubernetes production patterns. Deeply experienced in Kubernetes/cloud, Java, WebSphere and enterprise architecture, he was part of the original Liberty-profile team and a founder of the Eclipse Web Tools Platform. Tim pairs rigorous academic training in physics and computer science from Queen’s with a knack for aligning large engineering organizations around developer productivity and platform adoption. A pragmatic open-source advocate, he focuses on making local developer workflows feel like first-class citizens for cloud-native delivery.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics and Computer Science at Queen's University
Github Skills (164)
cds10
resolver10
specification10
theia10
eclipse10
copilot10
odo10
podman10
jetbrains10
jquery10
linux10
devtools10
pods10
kubernetes10
container10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
deboer-tim/desktop
Mar 2022 - Apr 2025
Contributions:360 pushes, 580 branches in 3 years 1 month
deboer-tim/icpctools
Feb 2021 - Mar 2025
The ICPC Tools
Contributions:87 pushes, 635 branches, 146 tags in 4 years 1 month
icpc
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