Tim Swanson
Senior Technical Leader, Office Of The CTO For Cloud Products And Solutions A at Cisco
Westford, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Swanson is a senior technical leader with 15 years of embedded networking software experience and over a decade driving manageability and scalability in Cisco’s network OSes, including deep expertise in IOS-XR and SNMP. As a pragmatic architect and team lead he has led integration of configuration orchestration (Puppet/Chef) into NXOS, built LXC-based application hosting toolchains, and resolved high-scale control-plane and management bottlenecks for carrier-class environments. He is the go-to engineer for absorbing new technologies and shepherding third‑party integrations, serving as primary technical contact for partners and customers alike. Active in cloud-native open source at Cisco, he has improved Istio’s control plane testing and multi-cluster tooling, bringing networking operational rigor to service mesh infrastructure. Based in Westford, MA, he combines hands-on engineering, process governance (MIB/data-model stewardship), and customer-facing communication to turn complex operational requirements into reliable products.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science and Engineering, BS, Computer Science and Engineering at University of Florida
Github Skills (13)
istio10
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
docker10
ioctl10
io10
devops10
dockers10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
testing10
helm9
go9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
istio/istio
Jan 2018 - Jun 2019
Connect, secure, control, and observe services.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:16 commits, 21 PRs, 289 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily focuses on improving the Istio control plane's operational aspects and testing infrastructure. Contributions include enhancements to the `istioctl` command-line tool for better logging and configuration management, specifically for enabling logging and leveraging ConfigMaps. The user also contributed to the multi-cluster testing framework, incorporating helm chart templating and addressing integration issues, and modifying the Prow scripts for e2e tests to utilize multi-cluster configurations. They fixed IPv6 related testing issues by adjusting test configurations to use IPv6 compatible services.
circuit-breakerenforce-policiesistioapi-managementmicroservice
CiscoDevNet/clus_workshop_base
Mar 2022 - May 2022
Base image for CLUS workshops
Contributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 1 month
clusbase-image
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