About Timothy Gerla

Based in Chapel Hill, NC, I have been working in IT automation and systems management for most of my career, beginning as an operating systems engineer at rPath, the first company to build and manage software appliances. I moved into a Sales Engineering role at rPath, then took a job at Eucalyptus, the open-source, AWS-compatible cloud platform, acquired by HP in 2014.

In 2013, I co-founded Ansible, Inc. and helped grow the business as VP of Services and Support and CTO until its acquisition by Red Hat Software in 2015. I am now providing consulting services for startups, including Anchore Inc., who are solving important security and visibility issues in container images.

Resume

Camp Quest Smoky Mountains (Knoxville, TN)

  • Camp Director, 2025
  • Board Member and Treasurer, 2020-present
  • Camp Staff, 2016-present

Anchore, Inc. (Santa Barbara, CA)

  • Open Source Community Manager (August 2022 - August 2024)

Talos Systems, Inc. (Santa Barbara, CA)

  • Co-Founder and CEO (April 2019 - August 2020)

Red Hat, Inc. (Raleigh, NC)

  • Senior Principal Software Engineer (January 2018 - April 2019)

Anchore, Inc. (Santa Barbara, CA)

  • Advisor (January 2016 - January 2018)

Ansible, Inc. (Durham, NC)

  • Co-Founder and CTO (February 2015 - November 2015)
  • Co-Founder and VP Services and Support (February 2013 - February 2015)

Eucalyptus Systems, Inc. (Santa Barbara, CA)

  • Director of Solutions Architecture (September 2012 - March 2013)
  • Sales Engineer (January 2010 - September 2012)

rPath, Inc. (Raleigh, NC)

  • Field Engineer (September 2007 - December 2009)
  • Lead Software Engineer (May 2004 - September 2007)

Outsource Financial Services (Phoenix, AZ)

  • Programmer (May 2003 - May 2004)

University of Minnesota, Crookston

  • BS, Information Technology Management (2003)