Tim Ramlot
Senior Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Lochristi, East Flanders, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Ramlot is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native systems and Kubernetes controllers, currently working at Palo Alto Networks from Belgium. He has deep hands-on expertise in PKI, OIDC/JWT, X.509 and certificate lifecycle automation, backed by long-term maintainership and contributions to cert-manager and other CNCF projects. Tim has contributed to high-profile open-source projects like deno and controller-runtime, implementing core runtime APIs and improving caching, serialization and testing robustness. His work spans front-end website maintenance to low-level runtime and DevOps engineering, reflecting a rare full-stack comfort across documentation, infrastructure and core system code. Notably, he helped enable ACME challenge support for Istio and strengthened cert-manager’s issuance and secret handling, improving reliability for real-world Kubernetes deployments. He holds an MSc in Computer Science Engineering from Ghent University and brings a pragmatic, test-driven approach to production-grade open-source software.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MSc Computer Science Engineering, Master of Science - MSc Computer Science Engineering at Ghent UniversitySecondary School Mathematics & Sciences, Secondary School Mathematics & Sciences at Koninklijk Atheneum Voskenslaan
Dutch, English, French
Github Skills (35)
asynchronous10
caching10
kubernetes10
deno10
hugo10
serializable10
javascript10
webworker10
serializer10
controller10
apidoc10
async10
testing10
run-time10
acme10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
cert-manager/cert-manager
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates in Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:946 reviews, 130 commits, 397 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:The user, Inteon, primarily contributed to the back-end functionalities and infrastructure of the cert-manager project, focusing on the ACME DNS provider for Istio. They implemented and improved the support for ACME HTTP01 challenges using the Istio gateway. Furthermore, they were responsible for improving the Certificate issuance processes and for handling the secrets used by the certificate. They also made several improvements to the test suite and Makefile to make tests more robust and reliable.
cert-managerletsencryptssltlscertificates
cert-manager/website
Jun 2021 - Nov 2022
Source code for the cert-manager.io website, including project documentation
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:202 reviews, 19 commits, 105 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to updating the website's front-end. Their commits focused on upgrading dependencies like Hugo and Docsy, and re-adding a title tag, which indicates work on the website's structure and presentation. These updates likely involved modifications to the website's layout and scripts to incorporate newer versions of the underlying technologies.
cert-managercertkubernetesproject-documentation
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