About
About Tim
I’m Tim Wilde, as you’ve probably already figured out. I’m a big UNIX geek, networking geek, FreeBSD geek, DNS geek, security geek. Just a geek, really. Nothing wrong with that. I’ve also been known to be quite random and bizarre when I get into the right (wrong?) mood. I like to have fun, though I’m told I’ve settled down quite a bit from my early 20s and late teens.
I live in Boston, and have lived variously in the Capital Region and Southern Tier of New York, northern California, central Massachusetts, and southern New Hampshire, as well as a stint in England when I was much younger.
For the past several years I’ve been running Labor Union Networking, Inc. (LUNI), a non-profit for the labor union community. LUNI runs union.place, a Mastodon server in the fediverse.
The handle I use online has a story, too: where did “Krellis” come from?
Professional
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2012 – Present
Google
A site reliability engineer in Cambridge, MA, working on the scalability and reliability of services including Search, Ads, Shopping and Travel, and on Google’s technical incident response. The résumé has the details.
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2007 – 2012
Team Cymru
Almost six years at a small Internet security firm. They’re an awesome group who know a ton about the malicious activity going on online, and that job really exposed me to a ton of really interesting stuff. I kept working on botnets, a subject I’d started digging into back at DynDNS, and grew my knowledge and experience with practical DDoS detection and mitigation along the way. I also developed a large-scale query tool that was an early introduction to Big Data, and had primary responsibility for building and managing a variety of bare-metal and virtualized systems, in our own datacenters and on partner premises.
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1998 – 2006
DynDNS
In late 1998, I founded DynDNS (known variously as Dynamic DNS Network Services, Dynamic DNS Network Services LLC, Dynamic Network Services Inc., and Dyn, Inc.). With the help of my business partners and our dedicated team, I built DynDNS from a small hobby site run off a modem into a successful business with well over a million customers worldwide, a global network, and a staff of 15. In August 2006, I resigned from DynDNS and sold my ownership stake back to the company. I am no longer in any way affiliated with it. Oracle announced it was buying the company, by then known as Dyn, in November 2016, a decade after I left, and dyn.com now just redirects to a page on Oracle’s site.
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2000 – 2002
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
After a summer at Lockheed Martin, I went to work for my good friend Amy Marr at the Web Development Office at WPI. Amy had picked me up as a work-study during my first year, and I managed to convince her to hire me full-time for the next year as WPI’s Web Programmer. I spent about a year and a half at the WDO before I struck out on my own with DynDNS, where I began working full-time in April 2002. The WDO was a lot of fun, and good experience, and I can’t thank Amy enough for the ways she helped me grow professionally while I was there.
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Summer 2000
Lockheed Martin Federal Systems
A software developer under their college student summer jobs program; it was the first year they took students after their freshman year. I got to work on the same project my dad was working on at the time (though I wasn’t in a reporting chain with him). The team was a lot of fun, and I learned a lot about big corporate environments.