Tim Horner
Software Engineer at Isovalent
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolTim Horner is a software engineer with nine years of experience building cloud-native networking and Kubernetes integrations, currently contributing to Isovalent and the popular Cilium eBPF project. He combines back-end and DevOps expertise—fixing policy validation, improving Kubernetes test tooling, and extending ClusterMesh support—to harden networking, security, and observability in distributed systems. Previously he led engineering efforts at Linode’s Kubernetes team and held senior roles at Akamai, giving him both hands-on implementation skills and team leadership experience. Based in Virginia, he brings a practical blend of customer-facing support background and deep open-source contributions that improve production-grade tooling in large-scale clusters.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Rowan University
Github Skills (10)
kubernetes10
go10
networking10
ebpf10
bpf10
kubernetes-pods10
testing9
container9
cni9
devops8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cilium/cilium
Apr 2022 - Mar 2025
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 362 reviews, 88 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Tim's contributions primarily focused on improving the Cilium project's networking and Kubernetes integration. They addressed policy validation issues related to empty endpoint selectors, enhancing preflight checks. The user also updated Kubernetes-related testing libraries to v1.26.0-rc.0. Further work included fixing parsing issues for multi-option key-value configurations and updating stable releases, improving code quality, and incorporating support for extended ClusterMesh functionality.
bpfcontainerskerneltroubleshootingkubernetes-networking
thorn3r/cilium
Nov 2022 - Jan 2025
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
Contributions:176 pushes, 60 branches in 2 years 3 months
securityebpfnetworkingobservabilitykubernetes
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