Tristan Havelick
Staff Software Engineer at FormSwift (Acquired By Dropbox)
Arvada, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTristan Havelick is a Staff Software Engineer with over 13 years of experience transforming unstable, hacked, or undocumented web systems into maintainable, production-ready products. Based in Arvada, Colorado, he brings deep hands-on expertise across ASP.NET (C#), Classic ASP, JavaScript, and Python, along with substantial experience designing and operating multi-tier web deployments on both Unix-like and Windows platforms. He has a consistent track record of rapid turnarounds—improving performance, automating deployments, and cutting server provisioning time dramatically—while also recruiting and mentoring high-quality engineers. Tristan’s background spans individual consulting to leadership roles, including long tenures as Engineering Manager and Principal Engineer at FormSwift and Inflection, where he balanced people management with technical ownership. Notably, he built practical migration and automation tooling (COM+ migration utilities, ASP-to-ASP.NET bridges) that reduced operational friction and accelerated releases.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
B.A Information Systems Business Marketing, B.A Information Systems Business Marketing at University of Colorado Denver
English
Stackoverflow
68,168reputation
7.5mreached
26answers
36questions
ruby-on-rails
top-5%
Github Skills (89)
browser9
rspec9
ruby-on-rails9
converter9
react9
markup9
text-summarization9
cli8
markup-language8
markdown8
haskell8
commonmark8
one-liner8
table-of-contents8
testing8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
thavelick/thavelick.github.io
May 2018 - Mar 2025
TristanHavelick.com
Contributions:21 PRs, 653 pushes, 41 branches in 6 years 11 months
thavelick/emacs-config
Oct 2013 - Apr 2016
Contributions:40 commits, 14 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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