Timothy Appnel
Senior Principal Product Manager, Product Evangelist, Ansible at Red Hat
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarTimothy Appnel is a senior product leader and long-time Ansible evangelist with over 30 years of IT and startup experience, currently shaping how Ansible integrates with Kubernetes and OpenShift at Red Hat. He blends hands-on DevOps and backend engineering—contributing code and modules to the core Ansible project—with strategic product evangelism, keynote speaking, and developer education. Before Ansible he led engineering teams in electronic trading automation and ran his own consultancy focused on web publishing, social networking and cloud solutions. A veteran open-source contributor, he’s credited with improvements across Ansible modules (including the synchronize module) and helped evolve community workshop tooling. Beyond enterprise tech, he brings a creative publishing background—co-founding an indie magazine and stewarding a Movable Type fork—reflecting a rare mix of technical depth and cultural storytelling. Based in New York, he’s equally likely to be found refining automation flows, DJing, or crafting a cocktail.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (23)
python10
configuration-management10
automation10
yaml10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
automations10
devops10
documentation10
jinja29
rsync9
nginx8
apache8
debug8
debugging8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/lightbulb
Aug 2015 - Apr 2018
Lightbulb has been deprecated and replaced by Ansible Workshops
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:157 commits, 168 PRs, 161 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Timothy primarily contributed to setting up and refining Ansible automation and workshops. They created custom module solutions, introduced roles and examples for Apache and Nginx, and added resources like configuration files and templates to workshops. The user also made updates to documentation, and cleaned up example files to ensure the automation was properly configured for different scenarios.
ansibleautomationlightbulbnetwork-automation
ansible/ansible-modules-core
Jan 2015 - Mar 2018
Ansible modules - these modules ship with ansible
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 PRs, 68 comments in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Timothy primarily contributed to the improvement and maintenance of the Ansible modules within the repository. They fixed bugs in modules, particularly related to error handling and timeouts. The user also updated documentation, applied native YAML syntax, and addressed grammatical errors in the module examples, showcasing a focus on code clarity and usability. Additionally, the user demonstrated the ability to configure and improve the synchronize module.
ansibleshipansible-modules
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