Timothy Yao
Staff Software Engineer(Security And Compliance Center) at IBM
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTimothy Yao is a Staff Software Engineer in Austin with 10 years of experience building cloud infrastructure, automation, and monitoring solutions at IBM. He currently develops the Terraform plugin and Go SDK for IBM Cloud’s Security and Compliance Center, translating policy and rule requirements into consumable infrastructure-as-code. His background includes designing connectivity and observability integrations for VMware-based cloud services, automating VM lifecycle and patching workflows with Ansible, RabbitMQ, and Terraform, and accelerating provisioning from weeks to days. With roots in chemistry and early research work on medical imaging pipelines, he brings a data-driven, systems-thinking approach to security and reliability challenges. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architectures that bridge developer tooling, monitoring, and compliance.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Pasadena City CollegeBachelor of Science (BS), Chemistry, Bachelor of Science (BS), Chemistry at University of California, Santa BarbaraUniversity of California, Irvine
Github Skills (60)
addon10
ibm-cloud10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
terraform-registry10
aws10
admin9
packaging9
governance9
vmc9
compliance8
python8
language-bindings8
sdk8
dependency-management8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tyao117/terraform-provider-ibm
Feb 2022 - Mar 2025
https://registry.terraform.io/providers/IBM-Cloud/ibm/latest/docs
Contributions:136 pushes, 29 branches in 3 years 1 month
ibm-cloudprovidersterraform-registryopcibm
tyao117/tyneovim
Oct 2020 - Oct 2023
Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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