Summary
Tim Yocum is a Director of Site Reliability Engineering based in Chicago who blends hands-on DevOps and SRE practice with strategic leadership across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. He leads SRE teams at InfluxData building an elastic platform for InfluxDB Cloud and previously directed IBM’s Cloud Databases operations after the Compose acquisition. Throughout his career he has run distributed, 100% remote teams, built support and managed-services offerings from concept to production, and executed zero-downtime datacenter migrations. His strengths are designing high-performance, fault-tolerant, containerized hybrid systems, driving cost optimization, and creating documentation and processes that actually get used. A pragmatic people-first leader, he measures success by customer outcomes and team experience and has intentionally reworked hiring practices to reduce bias and increase diversity.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer