Tyler Gill
Founder at Gillware
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTyler Gill is a serial founder and technology leader with eight years of formal experience building Gillware into a global leader in data recovery since founding it as a college student after his own hard drive failure. He combines hands-on R&D in cutting-edge storage recovery techniques with operational leadership—overseeing CRM, customer service, and logistics—to scale thousands of cases per year across RAIDs, SSDs, NAS and other devices. Tyler also co-founded Tetra Defense, broadening his focus into cybersecurity and incident response, and contributes practical backend improvements to open-source projects like Duplicati (notably enhancing Windows wildcard handling and filter logic). Known for a results-first commercial model (clients pay only on successful recoveries), he pairs entrepreneurial grit with deep technical curiosity and a pragmatic, customer-centric approach to product and process design.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Left after 3 years to start Gillware, Left after 3 years to start Gillware at University of Wisconsin-Madison
English, dutch, middle (ca.1050-1350)
Github Skills (15)
file-handling10
filesystem10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
rest-api8
api-rest8
testing8
restful-api8
api-design8
data-structure7
command-line7
cli7
data-structures7
command-line-interface7
software-design6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
duplicati/duplicati
Sep 2017 - Mar 2021
Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 123 commits, 34 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Tyler's contributions primarily involve enhancing the application's functionality and usability. They added support for wildcard paths on Windows, which involved modifications to the core controller logic, impacting how source paths are handled. Additional work addressed issues related to test filters and `help` command, ensuring correct handling of edge cases with include and exclude flags. Furthermore, the user introduced and integrated filter groups, improving code clarity, and added file system quota checks.
tno-backupsftptrust-no-one-backupencryptedcloud-backup
tygill/duplicati
Sep 2017 - Mar 2021
Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud!
Contributions:72 pushes, 72 branches in 3 years 7 months
encryptedencrypted-backupssecurelybackupsbackup
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