Tim Pickersgill
Senior Software Engineer at Sophos
Vale of White Horse, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Pickersgill is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years at Sophos and two decades of hands-on experience across Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX environments. He combines deep kernel- and driver-level work (owning the Talpa Linux module) with C++, Python and extensive test automation, bringing a strong focus on security, performance, usability and accessibility. Tim has built cross-platform integration and end-to-end testing frameworks, reduced regression effort through Selenium suites, and automated system testing across heterogeneous enterprise virtualization stacks. Comfortable pairing in agile teams, he also manages VMware, Oracle VM and IBM PowerVM infrastructures, which underpins his pragmatic systems-level perspective. Based in the Vale of White Horse, he blends low-level engineering rigor with practical automation that makes complex, multi-OS deployments reliably testable.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BEng, Software Engineering, BEng, Software Engineering at The University of ManchesterJohn Hampden Grammar School
Github Skills (7)
botnet10
interception10
file-access10
dos10
kernel8
perforce6
linux2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
sophos/talpa
Sep 2016 - Sep 2021
Talpa Kernel file access interception modules
Contributions:91 commits in 5 years 1 month
file-accesskerneldosinterceptionbotnet
paperclip/talpa
Jun 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:51 commits in 9 months
file-accesskernelperforcetiplinux
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