Tim Gates
Platform Engineering Team Lead
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Gates is a Platform Engineering Team Lead based in Sydney with eight years' focused experience in platform and DevOps engineering and a long career history at Iress dating back to software development and architecture roles. He blends hands-on Terraform and Python work—evidenced by contributions to the terraform-compliance project improving multi-version Terraform and plan format support—with team leadership and platform architecture responsibilities. Tim excels at modernising infrastructure pipelines, refactoring dependencies for performance and reliability, and translating legacy systems into scalable platform services. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, security-minded solutions that balance automation with operational realities. He brings a software engineering degree from UNSW and an unusual continuity of institutional knowledge, having progressed through successive engineering and architecture roles within the same organisation.
8 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
Github Skills (11)
terraformer10
infrastructure-as-code10
python10
aac10
terraform10
testing10
compliance9
docker8
cicd8
dockers8
bdd7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
pytest-buildkite/pytest-buildkite
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Plugin for pytest that automatically publishes coverage and pytest report annotations to Buildkite
Contributions:2 releases, 129 commits, 58 PRs in 1 month
pythonannotationstestingreportpytest-report
timgates42/cli
Apr 2021 - May 2022
a lightweight, security focused, BDD test framework against terraform.
Contributions:8 PRs, 39 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 1 month
testingsecuritybddtest-frameworkfocused
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