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Tyler is a Senior Software Engineer at Whatnot, a role they have held since January 2021. Prior to that, they spent two and a half years at Lyft as a Software Engineer, with their most recent role being on the Driver Excellence Team. There, they led the re-architecture of Lyft's ratings system, which improved service reliability, decreased endpoint latency by 75%, and reduced infraspend by 50%. Tyler also built the backend for a new education center in the Driver app, which increased driver course completions by 73% and driver course enrollments by 44%. In addition to their work on the Driver Excellence Team, Tyler also served as a Tech Lead on the Community Safety Team, where they launched the Check-Ins Platform, a multi-system platform that sends 60k+ safety check-ins per day to users. Tyler also launched the Rider Scheduled Check-Ins feature, which sends 3.3k+ scheduled end-of-ride check-ins per day to riders. Tyler has experience with Python, DynamoDB, microservices, distributed systems, gRPC, Envoy, AWS, and Kubernetes.

Tyler's educational career would involve completing a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science at the University of Michigan.