Summary
Kyler Witting is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building and modernizing backend APIs and microservices, currently driving platform work at SmartThings from Minneapolis. He has led migrations from monolithic Ruby on Rails to Kotlin/Spring Boot microservices, improved SQL and caching for cost and latency gains, and championed observability, security, and chaos engineering across large digital checkout systems. Comfortable as a hands-on technical lead and mentor, Kyler has built AOP libraries, automated performance/regression pipelines, and modernized legacy Java applications to reactive Kotlin at scale. He combines pragmatic engineering with a continuous improvement mindset and a track record of turning reliability and performance challenges into measurable production wins.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Michigan Technological University
English