Tim Tilstra
Independent Splunk Consultant & Architect at Charter Communications
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolTim Tilstra is an Independent Splunk Consultant and Observability Architect with 25+ years in IT and over a decade focused on large-scale observability platforms. He specializes in stabilizing and optimizing Splunk deployments—reducing costs, improving performance, and rescuing troubled environments—while also owning telemetry modernization across Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, and OTEL. At Epic Games he managed observability for 3,000+ hosts using Git-driven configs, Terraform, Helm, and ArgoCD, and his approach blends hands-on remediation with long-term architecture and operational playbooks. Tim’s background ranges from mainframe and Delphi development to cloud proof-of-concepts for AWS, giving him rare full-stack visibility into legacy-to-cloud migrations. Based in Charlotte, NC, he’s known for turning firefighting engagements into sustainable, automatable operations and expanding team capabilities through documentation and process improvements.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Clarkson UniversityGithub contributions (5)
TimL-EG/TestGitLFS
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
TimL-EG/TestGitSyncCrash3
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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