Timothy Dawson
Senior Software Maintenance Engineer at Red Hat
New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolTimothy Dawson is a Senior Software Maintenance Engineer at Red Hat with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and automation. He combines hands-on DevOps and backend work—improving AWS tooling and release automation—with practical network engineering from multi-homed BGP migrations to cost-optimised procurement. His open-source contributions to HashiCorp Packer notably extended EBS snapshotting, tagging and permissions, reflecting a focus on reliable AWS image workflows. Comfortable both in fast release cycles and in maintaining long-lived enterprise software, he brings an engineer’s pragmatism to complex systems and platform reliability.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at The University of Waikato
English
Github Skills (10)
automation10
automations10
amazon-ec210
go10
aws10
terraform9
terraformer9
docker6
dockers6
cicd6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/packer
Jul 2020 - Feb 2021
Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Timothy's primary contributions focus on enhancing the AWS EBS volume snapshot functionality within the Packer tool. They implemented features to create snapshots of EBS volumes, added the ability to tag snapshots, and integrated user/group permissions. Moreover, the user refactored snapshot configurations and incorporated a new polling configuration for the snapshot step, demonstrating a focus on improving AWS infrastructure automation. The contributions highlight their involvement in extending and refining the core AWS-related capabilities of Packer.
vagrantplatformslinuxpackerdocker
Timdawson264/SNet
Mar 2019 - Sep 2023
A rs485 L2 MAC, implements a simple Collision avoidance and Packet framing protocol.
Contributions:2 PRs, 27 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 6 months
macframingrs485packetcollision-avoidance
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