Tim Poffenbarger

About Tim Poffenbarger

Tim is passionate about identifying ways to shift IT culture to be more focused on automation, metrics-gathering, and sharing measurements and processes in the hopes to accelerate the rate at which business partners realize value from the solutions developed.Tim is a senior-level software engineer, currently serving as director of a pre-sales engineering team that spans 4 continents. His career has been in the Infrastructure, System Administration, Software Development, and Data Warehousing worlds. Most recently, Tim is operating as a pre-sales leader of people in the commercial segment of GitLab\'s business and helping customers and prospects articulate their business initiatives and current pain points while aligning the GitLab product offering to help achieve those initiatives and remediate the source of their pains.

Experience

1. Senior Director, Solutions Architecture - Center of Excellence

   GitLab

   Nov 2025 — Present

   Leading a team of teams impacting all aspects of the customer lifecycle journey while securing the business win, technical win, and commercial win. This team is comprised of Demo Architects, Business Value Consultants and Subject Matter Experts (specialists within distinct areas of our product).

Education

• Illinois State University

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

Skills

• Microsoft Office
• Html
• Windows
• Customer Service
• Iis
• Network Administration
• Networking
• Business Analysis
• Troubleshooting
• Windows Server
• Databases
• Project Management
• System Administration
• Visio
• Access
• Sql
• Training