Summary
Tyler Bennet is a Staff Software Engineer and Site Reliability leader with 9 years of SRE-focused experience and a 15+ year IT background, currently driving infrastructure automation, monitoring, and availability at Rivian. He builds tooling, APIs, and services to reduce downtime and error rates, and has hands-on expertise with Ansible, Golang, Docker, Prometheus/Grafana, and Linux containerization. Prior roles at Caterpillar broadened his cloud disaster recovery, API integration, and automation skills across AWS/Azure, SQL Server, and scripting (C#, PowerShell). Tyler pairs operational rigor—SLOs, alerting, forecasting—with developer-focused automation to move changes safely from dev to production. He holds an MS in Computer Information Systems and completed Intel Edge AI training, reflecting a blend of systems reliability and emerging AI interests. Based in Normal, Illinois, he has a track record of rebuilding alerting and automation systems that surface problems before customers do.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Computer Information Systems Software Development / IT, Master of Science in Computer Information Systems Software Development / IT at Bellevue University
Associate's Degree Science, Associate's Degree Science at Heartland Community College
Intel® Edge AI Scholarship Artificial Intelligence, Intel® Edge AI Scholarship Artificial Intelligence at Udacity