Tyler Caraza-harter
Assistant Faculty Associate
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTyler Caraza-harter is an experienced research-focused software engineer and Assistant Faculty Associate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison with 11 years in systems and backend development. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and has industry research experience as a Scientist at Microsoft plus internships across Google, Facebook, Qualcomm and others, giving him deep exposure to large-scale systems and research-to-production workflows. Tyler contributes to open-source serverless infrastructure (notably work on the open-lambda project’s Nginx and lambda integrations), demonstrating practical expertise in debugging and refactoring system internals. He blends academic rigor with hands-on engineering, often tackling low-level networking and configuration challenges that bridge research prototypes and production-ready services.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), CS, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), CS at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (4)
golang10
serverless-architectures10
nginx10
go10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
open-lambda/open-lambda
Feb 2016 - Sep 2022
An open source serverless computing platform
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 92 reviews, 329 commits in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily worked on adding and modifying code related to the Nginx configuration files and the lambda module within the open-lambda project. They added support for handling requests in the server, extracted key from GET requests, and extracted key from GET requests. Additionally, they seem to be involved in debugging and refactoring around system internals within the Nginx setup for this serverless platform.
golang-applicationserverlessdistributed-systemsmicroservicescomputing
cs544-wisc/s23
Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 80 pushes in 3 months
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