About Tim

Tim was working in customer support for a cloud service provider before “the cloud” as a concept even existed. Today, he helps Scale Factory customers understand and improve their platforms. He also helps us stay certified, as he’s qualified as an ISO27001 internal auditor and has led most of our internal security audits.

Over 2 decades of experience in IT and cloud means Tim is comfortable getting to grips with customer architectures based on open source technologies and the wider ecosystem that uses them.

Outside of consultancy, Tim is a co-editor for the official Kubernetes blog and is a former technical lead for Kubernetes SIG Docs, the documentation special interest group.

Tim's Blog Posts

• AWS access changes to billing and accounts (10 November, 2023)
• Achieving PCI DSS Compliance with AWS Control Tower (4 September, 2023)
• IPv4 costs on AWS (2 August, 2023)
• Landing zone architectures and cloud security (23 March, 2023)
• How To Handle Noisy SaaS Tenants on AWS (19 August, 2022)
• The case for managed backups (31 March, 2022)
• AWS technology to keep your secrets secure (2 March, 2022)
• Security by design for cloud secrets (28 February, 2022)
• A Decade Of DynamoDB (18 January, 2022)
• Security groups are not rule sets (21 September, 2021)
• Configure Git to merge using ort (20 August, 2021)
• Why use Kubernetes? (22 June, 2021)
• Building better monoliths (13 November, 2020)
• Decoupling from the cloud (12 November, 2020)
• The cost of not going cloud native (27 August, 2020)
• The 12 Factor Container (6 July, 2020)
• Git tips and tricks (22 May, 2020)
• AWS Security Features for SaaS Workloads (7 January, 2020)
• Cloud Tenancy Types to Suit Everyone (14 November, 2019)
• Using Multiple kubectl Versions with Minimal Faff (16 October, 2019)
• Writing Command Line Tools for the Future (24 July, 2019)
• To Swap or Not (21 June, 2019)

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