Tim Kuhlman
Principal Engineer at CrowdStrike
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolTim Kuhlman is a Principal Engineer with 16 years of experience building and operating cloud-native, secure, and scalable services, currently shaping architecture and delivery at CrowdStrike. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Go, DevOps culture (“you build it, you run it”), containers, monitoring, and infrastructure automation, with a strong background in site reliability and cloud platform engineering from roles at Gannett, Canonical, and HP Cloud. Tim pairs design ownership with operational rigor—evident in practical open-source contributions like fixing MySQL provisioning and package management in the Percona Chef cookbook—to reduce deployment friction and improve reliability. Based in Fort Collins, he combines systems-level troubleshooting instincts formed over 20+ years in ops with modern software engineering practices to deliver resilient services.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering at Case Western Reserve University
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Github Skills (14)
chef-client10
chef-solo10
database-administration10
percona10
mysql10
package-management9
automations8
automation8
infrastructure-as-code8
aac8
apt7
yum7
terraform5
terraformer5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/percona
Feb 2014 - May 2014
Development repository for the percona cookbook
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Database Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Database EngineerContributions:6 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily focused on configuring and maintaining the Percona database cookbook, a Chef-based project. They implemented changes to package installation and repository configurations. A key contribution involved addressing MySQL restart issues during initial provisioning by modifying the service management approach. Further contributions involved setting up package repositories, and altering default configurations and package versions.
cookbookmysqlperconachef-resourcemysql-database
GannettDigital/jstransform
Mar 2018 - Nov 2020
Specification and tools that define transform sections in a JSON schema and use those to modify JSON data.
Contributions:23 releases, 7 reviews, 96 commits in 2 years 7 months
ajvsectionsjsonpathtransformspecification
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