Tim Serong
Senior Clustering Engineer at SUSE
Tasmania, Australia
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Top SchoolTim Serong is a Senior Clustering Engineer based in Tasmania with 14 years of hands-on engineering and leadership experience building and operating distributed systems. At SUSE he focuses on clustering and cloud operations, contributing to high-profile open source projects like Ceph and Crowbar where he’s fixed build, compatibility and automation issues across diverse Linux distributions. A pragmatic problem-solver and former co-founder, he pairs deep systems-level expertise (Linux, Windows, embedded/Palm OS era) with practical DevOps and QA improvements that reduce operational friction. He has recent people-management experience and a track record of improving startup-to-enterprise platforms, often through small but impactful tooling and build fixes. Notably, he prefers long-lived profiles and code—seeking durable solutions over short-term hacks.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
self-made man
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Github Skills (23)
c-language10
suse10
bash10
distributed-systems10
build-system10
chef-client10
automation10
chef-solo10
automations10
distributed-file-system10
cprogramming-language10
devops10
scripting9
cloud-computing9
opensuse9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
crowbar/crowbar
Apr 2012 - Oct 2015
Cloud Operations Platform
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & System Administrator
DevOps Engineer & System AdministratorContributions:43 commits, 7 PRs, 16 comments in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Tim's contributions primarily focused on automating and improving the setup and configuration of a SUSE-based cloud operations platform. They made changes to the `install-chef-suse.sh` script, addressing issues in the Chef WebUI startup, initial chef-client runs, and default proposal creation. Their work included adding more debug output, ensuring correct domain name configuration, and incorporating tests. The user also made improvements to the sledgehammer startup script, making it distribution independent.
cloud-operationsapi-documentationcloudkubernetes
ceph/ceph
Feb 2015 - Jan 2023
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
Role in this project:Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:60 reviews, 173 commits, 116 PRs in 8 years
Contributions summary:Tim contributed to the Ceph distributed storage platform by addressing various issues, primarily focusing on build system and compilation problems. Their work involved modifying build configurations to support different compiler versions and operating systems (e.g., openSUSE), adding compatibility for newer versions of libraries such as `fmt`, and fixing compiler-related issues. Additionally, the user made modifications to the testing and QA infrastructure, including ownership of crash dump files.
fusefile-storagecephstorageopenebs
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