Tyler Ferraro
Adjunct Professor at Firstup
Walla Walla, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolTyler Ferraro is a seasoned software engineer and educator with 13 years of experience building and modernizing web and cloud systems using Ruby on Rails, React, Elixir, and C++. Currently balancing roles as an adjunct professor teaching introductory Python and as a senior engineer focused on messaging workflows, he blends hands-on delivery with mentorship and technical roadmapping. His background spans architecting event-driven AWS systems, leading SaaS product builds, and refactoring legacy financial and enterprise applications to improve performance and reliability. A former circus performer and world traveler, Tyler brings curiosity and creativity to engineering problems and client-facing work, often translating complex legacy codebases into maintainable, documented architectures. He’s comfortable at both the code and systems level—writing technical RFCs, setting CI/CD practices, and helping teams reduce deployment windows and runtime errors.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science Software Engineering, Bachelors of Science Software Engineering at Oregon Institute of Technology
Chinese
Stackoverflow
3,802reputation
637kreached
134answers
7questions
Github Skills (25)
http-api9
padding9
api7
weechat6
ruby-on-rails6
sql6
context-menu6
windows6
irc-server6
python6
ruby6
winapi6
mysql6
irc5
data-structures5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tylerferraro/Ruzzle-Solver
Jan 2013 - Feb 2016
Contributions:16 commits, 1 push, 2 branches in 3 years
tylerferraro/curator
Oct 2018 - Oct 2021
Electronic book parser gem
Contributions:1 review, 19 PRs, 12 pushes in 3 years
electronicgemrubyparser
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