Tim Yocum
Director, Site Reliability Engineering at InfluxData
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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RockstarTim Yocum is a seasoned Site Reliability Engineering leader with 11+ years driving resilient, cloud-native platforms across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. Currently Director of SRE at InfluxData, he builds elastic, multi-cloud systems for InfluxDB Cloud while blending hands-on engineering with people-centric leadership. His career spans scaling database-as-a-service offerings at IBM/Compose to running data center operations and managed services, giving him rare perspective from hardware to container orchestration. Tim emphasizes measurable team processes—KPIs, documentation, and bias-reducing hiring—to improve both product outcomes and the experience of getting there. Known for pragmatic "block-and-tackle" problem solving, he pairs cost-conscious architecture with customer-facing operational excellence.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (127)
timeseries-database10
wireguard10
monitoring10
vpn10
ragel10
rust10
scalable10
database10
time-series10
datastore10
react10
oauth10
influx9
kapacitor9
cli9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
tkyocum/nlwt
Dec 2018 - May 2023
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 4 years 6 months
tkyocum/hyde-hyde
Sep 2021 - Nov 2022
A cool theme inspired by spf13's Hyde theme
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes in 1 year 2 months
spf13hyde
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