Tyler Ballast
Software Architect at PI (Physik Instrumente) Group
Germany
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolTyler Ballast is a software architect with 12 years of experience building high-throughput, multi-threaded systems and leading product-focused engineering teams from Germany. He has progressed from research roles in instrumentation and simulation to technical leadership as Head of R&D at Reportix and now architects software at PI Group, blending low-level C++/embedded experience with modern backend API design. Tyler excels at simplifying complex data workflows—especially for financial reporting and telematics—while ensuring reliability and maintainability at scale. His early work on video-processing frameworks and DAQ firmware reflects a knack for performance optimization and pragmatic refactoring. Colleagues describe him as hands-on and user-centered: he deliberately chooses work that produces direct, positive impact for people.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Physics, Dean's Honours List, Bachelor’s Degree, Physics, Dean's Honours List at University of Waterloo, WaterlooSt. Theresa Catholic Secondary School
English, German
Github Skills (77)
multiselect10
autocomplete10
api10
sdk10
testing-library10
cypress10
rest9
react-testing-library9
vue-testing-library9
testing9
api-client9
rest-client9
ui-select9
openapi9
rest-api9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tballast/dotfiles
May 2018 - Nov 2023
Config Stuff
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 7 months
karabinerconfigstowdotfileshammerspoon
tballast/tballast.github.io
Oct 2018 - Apr 2025
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
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