Beau Lyddon
Principal Engineer, Generative AI Team
Longmont, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBeau Lyddon is a Principal Engineer and seasoned technology leader with 14+ years building scalable, cloud-native systems and high-performing engineering organizations. He blends hands-on architecture and product-minded engineering—recently shaping generative AI tooling at Workday with a React/Node prompt studio and middleware that connects product teams to LLM APIs. A former co-founder of Real Kinetic, he has deep experience helping companies transition to DevOps, multi-tenant cloud architectures, and observability-driven operations while coaching leaders on OKRs and team-building. At Workiva he led the shift from quarterly releases to continuous delivery, built a microservice platform and a patent-backed distributed calculation service, demonstrating both technical depth and operational rigor. Based in Longmont, Colorado, Beau is equally passionate about mentoring engineers as he is about shipping pragmatic solutions that scale.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Management Information Systems General, Bachelor's degree Management Information Systems General at Iowa State University
Github Skills (40)
purescript10
google-app-engine9
documentation8
iron8
modular7
async7
thrift7
codegen7
logger7
compiler6
logging6
concurrency6
pubsub6
dockerfile6
java6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
lyddonb/What-Is-Happening
Apr 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 months
lyddonb/dont_worry_about_monads
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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