Tim Banks

Bio

Tim’s tech career spans over 25 years through various sectors. Tim’s initial journey into tech started in avionics in the US Marine Corps and then into various government contracting roles. After moving to the private sector, Tim worked both in large corporate environments and in small startups, honing his skills in systems administration, automation, architecture, and operations for large cloud-based datastores. Today, Tim leverages his years in operations, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering to advise and consult with the open source and cloud computing communities. Tim is also a competitive Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner. He is the 2-time American National and is the 5-time Pan American Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu champion in his division.

Areas of Professional Expertise

DevOps πŸ‘¨πŸ½β€πŸ’»

Datacenter & Cloud Infrastructure/Architecture ⌨️

Cost Optimization, Cloud Economics, and FinOps πŸ’°

Incident Response ⛑️

DevRel 🀝

Engineering Leadership πŸ‘‰πŸ½

Other Areas of Expertise

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu πŸ₯‹

Cooking πŸ‘¨πŸ½β€πŸ³

Music 🎸

Content Highlights

Video

DevOps Docuseries Content Highlights

Blog

The New Stack

Podcast

Day Two Cloud

Grappling With Cloud Strategies

Geeking Out

Geeking Out On Open Source

Greater Than Code

Uncovering And Breaking Patterns

Screaming In The Cloud

The Democratization of Tech The Rise of the Agile Data Center Working On The Whiteboard

External Links

LinkedIn Blog Twitch YouTube