Ash Tyndall
Founding Engineer at Auggie
Perth, Western Australia
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Top SchoolAsh Tyndall is a founding engineer and principal software leader with 13+ years building and scaling SaaS platforms from early architecture to production. He blends hands-on full‑stack development with technical strategy, security and reliability on AWS/GCP, delivering major rearchitectures like passkey-based auth, CRDT-powered real‑time collaboration, and ~40% infrastructure cost reductions. At Auggie he’s co-designing an LLM-orchestrated conversational booking system that integrates with practice management software to recover unused clinical capacity. His background spans startups and consultancy where he led cloud modernisation, IoT telemetry and applied ML systems, and contributed to notable open-source Ruby projects such as shoryuken and devise_saml_authenticatable. Comfortable shipping high‑risk initiatives as an individual contributor or CTO, he brings a Product Engineer mindset and a pragmatic focus on measurable commercial outcomes. Based in Perth, he pairs deep technical craft with an eye for operational reliability and user-friendly security migrations.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours), Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours) at The University of Western AustraliaHigh School, Western Australian Certificate of Education, High School, Western Australian Certificate of Education at Irene McCormack Catholic CollegeEntrepreneurship in China, Entrepreneurship in China at Zhejiang University
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Github Skills (19)
devise10
saml10
testing10
authentication10
user-authentication10
ruby10
aws10
amazon-s310
aws-s310
s3-bucket10
configuration-management9
regular-expression8
rails8
ruby-rails8
rspec7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
AssetSync/asset_sync
Sep 2016 - Aug 2021
Synchronises Assets between Rails and S3
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Ash primarily focused on enhancing the `asset_sync` library, adding functionality to configure S3 ACLs directly and via ENV or YAML configuration files. They implemented regular expression support for always uploading assets, and also expanded the configuration options with new attributes. Furthermore, they streamlined the codebase by moving AWS accessor attributes to separate lines. These changes directly impact how assets are synchronized with S3, providing more flexibility and control over the upload process.
rails
ruby-shoryuken/shoryuken
Oct 2016 - Jul 2017
A super efficient Amazon SQS thread based message processor for Ruby.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 6 PRs, 32 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Ash primarily contributed to the `shoryuken` project, a Ruby-based message processor for Amazon SQS. Their work included fixing a critical bug in the dispatch function that was causing performance issues in long-running jobs. The user also added a new polling strategy, "StrictPriority," and refactored existing code to improve clarity and efficiency. Additionally, they made updates to enhance the `QueueConfiguration`'s `to_s` method and modified the codebase to handle ActiveJob queue prefixes.
amazon-sqsrubyshoryukenaws-sdk-rubyaws-sqs
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