Timothy Mcfadden
Principal DevSecOps Engineer at Bluestaq
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTimothy Mcfadden is a Principal DevSecOps Engineer based in Colorado Springs with 7 years in cloud-native, SRE, and DevOps leadership roles and a much longer history in embedded and test automation. He blends hands-on automation (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, GitOps tools, Kubernetes/EKS) with security-first practices, now focused on shifting security left and hardening CI/CD at Bluestaq. Timothy has moved between individual contributor and director-level roles, consistently shipping platform improvements and mentoring teams while still doing deep technical work. His background in Python-heavy test frameworks, multi-threaded hardware access systems, and teaching cybersecurity students gives him a rare mix of systems, security, and instructional experience. A Gulf War veteran, he brings disciplined operational rigor and a knack for pragmatic solutions developed across startups and large engineering organizations.
7 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's Degree Computer Software Engineering at Colorado Technical UniversityBachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering at University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Github Skills (93)
price10
controller10
swagger10
cost-optimization10
terraform10
gcp10
infrastructure10
code-generation10
gatekeeper10
microservices10
openapi10
code-generator10
goa10
thin10
validation10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tim775/infracost
Apr 2021 - Jan 2022
Cloud cost estimates for Terraform in your CLI and pull requests 💰📉
Contributions:13 releases, 114 pushes, 35 branches in 9 months
cloud-costgcpcost-optimizationdevopscost-management
tim775/tf-test-repo
Jan 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:861 PRs, 97 pushes, 69 branches in 2 years 2 months
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