Tim Olson
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Olson is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with a decade of experience building and operating resilient infrastructure, currently driving reliability at Reddit. A longtime Linux daily-driver and passionate advocate for FOSS, he combines deep systems troubleshooting with pragmatic automation to keep large-scale services healthy. His career spans SRE roles at SPS Commerce and software engineering at Veritas, giving him a strong background in test infrastructure, failure analysis, and production tooling. Based in Saint Paul, MN, he documents experiments and 3D-printing projects on his site, revealing a hands-on tinkerer mindset that informs his pragmatic approach to engineering.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at St. Cloud State University
English, German
Github Skills (47)
firefox-addon9
chrome-extension9
openid9
authentication8
idp8
ssl8
accessibility8
identity8
browser-extension7
pluggable7
chrome7
proxy7
cloud-infrastructure7
oauth2-proxy7
authorization7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tolson-vkn/forge
Jan 2020 - Jan 2024
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
tolson-vkn/CSCI411Project2
Oct 2016 - Sep 2020
CSCI 411 Project 2: A library system for academic referencing.
Contributions:26 PRs, 16 pushes, 29 branches in 3 years 10 months
tuplecscireferencingreconciliation
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