Summary
Kyler Little is a Lead Member of Technical Staff with ~8 years of engineering experience focused on modernizing large-scale Java/Spring platforms, improving reliability, and driving substantial cloud cost reductions. At Tableau he led migrations (Prep to Spring Boot), dependency modernization across 70+ projects, and storage re-architecture from EFS to S3—efforts that cut startup times in half, slashed library upgrade cycles from ~30 days to ~2 days, and are projected to save ~$100K/month. He routinely tackles high-severity, ambiguous problems—from Java 17 and Spring 6 blockers to P1 security incidents—and his work has materially limited customer impact during major AWS outages. Comfortable both deep in code (concurrency, distributed systems, observability) and at the cross-org level, he mentors engineers and aligns PMs, support, and product to land platform changes. An uncommon strength is turning operational observations into multi-team, high-leverage initiatives (e.g., uncovering costly EFS misuse while debugging a customer issue) that produce measurable engineering and business outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Washington State University
Bachelor's degree Sustainable Development, Bachelor's degree Sustainable Development at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Spanish, English