Tyler Couto
Senior Software Engineer at GovSignals
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTyler Couto is a senior software engineer in San Diego with 11 years of experience building scalable full-stack and infrastructure systems, blending React Native and TypeScript frontends with Go and Python backends. He has led technical initiatives at startups and consultancies—designing credentialing and admin tooling that served millions of users at Merit and modernizing payments and migration projects for enterprise clients like Hy-Vee. Tyler brings deep systems and DevOps expertise from roles at Lucidworks and Certain, contributing open-source SaltStack integrations (Datadog modules) and automation tooling that improved observability and deployment reliability. Comfortable across serverless AWS architectures, Terraform, and CI/CD, he prioritizes developer experience and code quality while shipping production-grade distributed systems. Currently seeking remote roles where he can drive full-stack or backend innovation, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a history of turning operational pain points into reusable platforms.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (10)
configuration-management10
data-api10
api10
python10
automation9
infrastructure-as-code9
remote-execution8
cloud-manager7
event-handling7
event-manager7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
saltstack/salt
Feb 2017 - May 2018
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:19 commits, 10 PRs, 51 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily contributed to the development of a Datadog execution module, adding functions to schedule and cancel downtimes, and post events. Their work involved interacting with the Datadog API, indicating backend development skills. They also made style changes and improvements, demonstrating a focus on code quality and potentially, familiarity with DevOps-related aspects of infrastructure monitoring.
pythonzeromqevent-streaminfrastructure-managementcloud-providers
onlyanegg/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Jun 2022
Linux configuration files
Contributions:4 PRs, 23 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years 6 months
dotfileslinux-configurationconfiguration-fileslinux
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