Tim Surento

About Me & Technical Background

Building reliable infrastructure through automation, tooling, and disciplined engineering practices.

I am a Network Automation and DevOps engineer with experience designing, operating/supporting and automating cloud and on-prem infrastructure across large enterprises and smaller organizations. I’ve worked across a wide range of industries, such as, retail, financial services, and healthcare.

My background spans traditional network engineering, systems engineering, and cloud engineering, with a long-standing focus on automation, reliability, and operational tooling. I treat infrastructure the same way software teams treat code — version-controlled, testable, and delivered through CI/CD pipelines to make change safer, repeatable, and easier to reason about.

Network and infrastructure automation using Python, Ansible, and Terraform
CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and network changes
Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, OCI) and hybrid cloud integrations
On-prem data center networking (Cisco, Juniper, Linux)
NetBox as a source of truth for inventory, IPAM, and automation workflows
Reducing manual effort and operational risk through Git-driven standardization

I’m especially interested in bridging the gap between traditional networking practices and modern DevOps operating models — standardizing how infrastructure is defined, deployed, and monitored to improve reliability while reducing operational overhead.

Outside of work I enjoy sports, movies, music, video games and exploring new technologies.