Tyler Benfield
Staff Software Engineer at Prisma
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolTyler Benfield is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling web and database-backed systems from greenfield to production. He’s led cross-functional teams and multiple greenfield products at Prisma, delivering global query caching, autoscaling connection pools, CDC, and scale-to-zero serverless databases using TypeScript and Rust to handle billions of requests with minimal manual intervention. Tyler pairs hands-on ownership of code with operational leadership—owning deployment pipelines, production infrastructure, and SLO-driven on-call processes that reduced incidents while preserving SLAs. He’s a practiced technical ambassador who speaks at conferences and produces educational content to demystify databases and cloud architecture. Known for empowering teams through humble confidence, he focuses on enabling teams to take products from idea to production while treating other teams as partners rather than blockers. Based in Charlotte, NC, he combines deep systems engineering with a preference for pragmatic, team-first solutions.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics / Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics / Computer Science at Wingate University
English
Stackoverflow
2,370reputation
199kreached
51answers
0questions
react-hooks
top-5%
Github Skills (73)
postgresql10
databases10
sql-query10
javascript10
sql10
orm-library10
database10
sqlite10
cockroachdb10
mysql10
mariadb10
typescript10
prisma10
sql-server10
unit-of-work10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Standpoint-Technologies/Mailgun.NET
May 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:24 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
rtbenfield/tylerbenfield.me
Jul 2015 - Nov 2024
The personal website and blog of Tyler Benfield
Contributions:13 PRs, 76 pushes, 18 branches in 9 years 6 months
gatsbyreactnextjs
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