My experiences working at Tanium have been great: great people, a great company culture, and great technology. Honestly, it was an extremely positive experience overall, working from home with individuals all over the world, creating solutions like Tanium Provision and learning a lot along the way. (In case you’re wondering, yes, Linux bare metal imaging really isn’t that different from Windows bare metal imaging. Creating your own PXE server isn’t too bad either. Node.js and GoLang work well. PowerShell can do lots of fun things. MacOS as your primary device is doable. Slack is great. Outlook doesn’t matter in orgs that aren’t e-mail obsessed. And I can’t live without Visual Studio Code.)
My only regret is that I never managed to meet most of my Tanium co-workers in person: teammates, developers, product managers, TAMs, support personnel, etc. were sometimes large-as-life talking heads on video meetings, or just small icons on Slack conversations. If we ever cross paths physically in the future, please say hi, and don’t hesitate to ping me on your social media or messaging app of choice, or even e-mail (michael@oofhours.com).
I will remain a supporter of Tanium, and if you need a platform that can provide real-time visibility of any data on a nearly unlimited number of devices with minimal (or no) server infrastructure, please check it out. Or even try it out.
After a short break for some ridiculous travel (SEA-SFO-SEA-LHR-CPT and back again within a week), I’ll be back at it — more details on that soon.
Out of Office Hours 
4 responses to “Thank you, Tanium!”
I never got a chance to speak with you directly while you were at Tanium, but over the years you have left a trail of posts, documentation, and other stuff that has led me through my career. I just wanted to take a second to thank you for that. The amount of time and frustration you have saved me is incalculable.
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Good luck Michael.
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I would love to see a post on setting up your own Linux based pxe server. I’ve been toying with a pxe server that can deploy Linux and PE images. I got Linux {ESXi} to work. But haven’t had a chance to look into adding PE support as well.
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We built a cross-platform.PXE server that deployed a Linux boot image, leveraging Grub. Doing Windows PE with that setup is a hard (easier with iPXE).
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