Tim Foster
Software Engineer at Nutanix
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTim Foster is a seasoned software engineer with over 16 years' experience focused on build systems, release engineering, and UNIX-like operating systems. He led large Solaris OS/Net development efforts at Sun/Oracle, architected a ground-up Python-based packaging system leveraging ZFS, and later improved object storage build and packaging at Joyent. Currently at Nutanix, he works on AHV build and developer productivity, applying deep OS, CI, and tooling expertise to virtualization stacks. Comfortable across languages (Python, Perl, shell, Java) and domains (CI, testing, internationalisation), he combines hands-on coding with mentoring and process design. Notably, he has a track record of turning OS-level innovations into practical developer-facing tools and services that simplify deployment and upgrades. Based in the UK, he thrives on hard engineering problems and teaching others to adopt better build and release practices.
15 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at University College Dublin
Github Skills (200)
smartos10
solaris10
jenkins-ci10
consolidation10
triton10
api9
utm9
virtualization9
http-api9
tftp-server9
vms9
interactive-session9
ansible-role9
jenkins-plugin9
health9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
joyent/play
Oct 2019 - Mar 2021
A playground repo for testing out tooling. This isn't a product.
Contributions:97 PRs, 26 pushes, 24 branches in 1 year 5 months
toolingtestingplaygroundjest
timfoster/ansible-role-jenkins
Sep 2022 - Feb 2025
Ansible Role - Jenkins CI
Contributions:1 PR, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
jenkinsjenkins-cijenkins-plugindevopsansible
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