Tim is a co-founder and the CTO of Ansible, Inc., one of the fastest-growing and most popular open source IT automation tools. Tim has more than 10 years of experience in IT infrastructure and systems management, including running the sales engineering team at Eucalyptus, the private cloud computing platform acquired by HP. He was one of the first engineers at rPath, an early and groundbreaking company in the software appliance market, later acquired by SAS. Tim holds a degree in Information Technology Management from the University of Minnesota, and lives in Durham, North Carolina.