Tim Carroll

Tim Carroll is a senior leader at Perforce Software, influencing product development and guiding innovation across the portfolio, including OpenLogic, Zend, SourcePro, IMSL, Akana, and Gliffy brands. He brings more than 25 years of experience in software development, including over a decade as Director of Software Development at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Throughout his career, Tim has focused on promoting open source adoption and strategy. He was a founding member and served for 10 years on the Board of Directors of the Apereo Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the use of open source in higher education. He also helped establish the Java Special Interest Group (JASIG) project incubation process and oversight group, which was later adopted and implemented at Apereo. Tim has written and presented on topics ranging from Hadoop administration and Linux migration strategies to open source lifecycle management and governance. He is particularly motivated by providing software solutions that enable people to look beyond solved problems, and mobilizing resources to overcome new interesting obstacles.