Tyler French
Staff Software Engineer at BuildBuddy
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTyler French is a software engineer based in Atlanta with five years of experience focused on improving developer experience and build systems. He contributes to prominent open-source tooling like Gazelle for Bazel, where he has improved label parsing, external repository handling, and macro-driven dependency loading to make build generation more robust. Tyler blends back-end engineering with build engineering expertise, routinely fixing subtle bugs, deduplicating definitions, and optimizing rule sorting for more reliable CI outputs. Colleagues would describe him as a practical problem-solver who prefers tackling the plumbing that keeps teams productive, with a knack for making complex build configurations predictable and maintainable.
5 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyEast Chapel Hill High SchoolPart Time Student Mathematics, Part Time Student Mathematics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (5)
starlark10
go10
bazel10
build-automation10
go-modules8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bazel-contrib/bazel-gazelle
Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
Gazelle is a Bazel build file generator for Bazel projects. It natively supports Go and protobuf, and it may be extended to support new languages and custom rule sets.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Build Engineer
Back-end Developer & Build EngineerContributions:10 releases, 118 reviews, 11 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily contributed to the core functionality of Gazelle, focusing on parsing labels and resolving external references within the Bazel build system. They implemented features to handle repository macros, allowing for more flexible loading of dependencies. Additionally, they improved the build process by handling duplicate definitions and ensuring proper sorting of rules and loads within macro files. The user also worked on fixing bugs and optimizing the build configuration generation.
bazelfile-generatorgoprotobuf
tyler-french/rules_go
Jan 2023 - Nov 2025
Go rules for Bazel
Contributions:109 pushes, 52 branches in 2 years 10 months
golangbazelstarlarkrulesbazel-rules
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