Tim Pepper
Cyber Security Consultant at ROOST.tools
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolTim Pepper is a cyber security consultant and open source security leader based in Portland, Oregon, with 25+ years of hands-on systems and software experience spanning the Linux kernel through cloud orchestration. He specializes in software supply chain security, privacy and compliance, translating high-level security principles into concrete invariants and resilient designs for large enterprises and federal programs. Tim has held senior technical and executive roles at VMware and CISA, led open source strategy and release practices in Kubernetes, and continues to shape OSS safety through consulting and volunteer governance. Beyond engineering, he brings uncommon context from a peripatetic upbringing and multilingual education that informs his empathetic change leadership, and he balances technical life with community service, small-scale farming, triathlon, woodworking, and home brewing.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Portland State UniversityDeutsch Als Fremdsprache, Deutsch Als Fremdsprache at Heidelberg University
German, English
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Github Skills (160)
testing10
terraform10
gcp10
scheduling10
infrastructure10
k8s10
mesos10
linux10
software-update10
artifacts10
kubernetes-deployment10
emacs10
userland10
database10
busybox10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
tpepper/test-infra
Jul 2018 - Aug 2020
Test infrastructure for the Kubernetes project.
Contributions:30 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years
testingkubernetesinfrastructuretest-infrastructure
tpepper/swupd-client
Jun 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:39 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 5 months
pythonupdateupdate-clientjavasoftware-update
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