TP has worked at Puppet for the last year and a half, developing their supported modules. This includes working with the puppet community on FOSS modules for Apache / MySQL / Postgresql / Tomcat ... and also on device based modules like the Netscaler / F5 / Netapp modules. Before Puppet he was employed by F5 and BTI Systems. Then he moved on to IBM, working in the security space developing QVM - a networked vulnerability scanner, maintaining the penetration tools.