Tyler Christensen
Software Engineer at Qualtrics
Provo, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolTyler Christensen is a software engineer in Provo, Utah with 11 years of experience focused on backend and infrastructure for distributed systems. He helped design Qualtrics' standardized analytics data model and authored the analytics caching layer that delivers most queries in double-digit milliseconds. A pragmatic Go advocate, he spearheaded Go adoption at Qualtrics and modernizes legacy services to improve developer agility and operational efficiency. He favors readable, human-first code and leans into low-level concerns like databases and infrastructure rather than JVM ecosystems. Outside work he pursues space technology, drone piloting, iPhone photography, and longboarding—small details that reflect a taste for precision and unusual perspectives.
11 years of coding experience
Timpanogos High SchoolBrigham Young University
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (140)
go-modules10
programming-language10
distributed-tracing10
proxy10
haiku10
stash10
jaeger10
opentelemetry10
launchpad10
goproxy10
athens10
recurly10
golang10
proxy-server10
opentracing10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
qualtrics/jaeger-client-php
Aug 2017 - Sep 2022
Jaeger bindings for the PHP OpenTracing API
Contributions:2 releases, 37 commits, 3 PRs in 5 years 2 months
apitracingjaegertracingphpmicroservices
tylerchr/pwnedpass
Mar 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:20 commits, 12 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 10 months
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