Tim Garner
Senior Manager, Engineering at SailPoint
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolTim Garner is a senior engineering leader and founder with 12 years of experience turning early-stage products into high-revenue enterprises, now leading Identity Security engineering at SailPoint. A hands-on software engineer by training, he consistently ships quick proofs-of-concept in Go, Python, and React that inform larger product roadmaps and scale across teams. He co-founded Double Zero Security (acquired by SailPoint) and previously helped grow Cisco Tetration from a greenfield project into a multi-hundred-million-dollar business while recruiting and mentoring teams from tens to hundreds of engineers. A prolific communicator, Tim publishes blogs, white papers, podcasts, and YouTube content, and is a repeat speaker at Cisco Live, Tech Field Day, and analyst briefings. He also contributes to open-source projects focused on secure integration with Cisco APIC, including certificate-based authentication and hardened back-end tooling. Based in Sunnyvale with a first-class Computer Science degree, he blends technical depth with product, marketing, and go-to-market experience to bridge engineering and customer outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, 1st Class Honours. Dean's List., Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, 1st Class Honours. Dean's List. at University of Plymouth
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
datacenter/acitoolkit
Jul 2015 - Dec 2016
A basic toolkit for accessing the Cisco APIC
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:14 commits, 9 PRs, 5 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to the development of the EventFeeds application, focusing on integrating with the Cisco APIC and providing Atom Feeds for events. They added functionality to use object names for feed entry authors and made several changes based on Pylint recommendations to improve the code. Furthermore, they implemented certificate-based authentication for secure APIC access, including generating request signatures, extending the argument parser for certificate parameters, and adding corresponding test cases.
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amney/acitoolkit
Jun 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:41 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 7 months
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