Tristan Secord
AI Engineer at Kiid AI
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTristan Secord is an AI engineer and seasoned backend leader with 11 years of experience building scalable, high-throughput systems—largely in Elixir and Phoenix—now applying that expertise at Kiid AI. He has a strong track record at theScore leading sportsbook platform engineering, driving migrations, decomposing monoliths, and launching high-traffic products like ESPN BET with 99.8% uptime. Tristan blends hands-on system design and performance work (stateless services, DB partitioning, GraphQL federation) with team-building and cross-team coordination, having defined engineering roles and led multi-team restructures. He’s comfortable negotiating vendor contracts and piloting new tech to unblock teams, demonstrating both technical depth and business-oriented thinking. Based in Canada with a background in computer engineering and public speaking, he brings clear communication skills to complex technical and strategic conversations. A practical problem-solver, he pairs implementation fluency with an interest in higher-level planning and organizational strategy.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Public Speaking, Public Speaking at University of TorontoBachelor's Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering at Queen's University
English
Github Skills (22)
apollo-federation9
textinput9
gateway9
apollo9
nested-forms7
graphql-federation7
graphql7
thai6
react-forms5
apollo-link5
elixir4
react4
absinthe3
apollo-client3
numeric3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
scoremedia/bypass
Jun 2019 - Dec 2021
Bypass provides a quick way to create a custom plug that can be put in place instead of an actual HTTP server to return prebaked responses to client requests.
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
placepluginbypassin-placeplug
tristan-secord/dotfiles
May 2017 - Mar 2025
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 7 years 10 months
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