Summary
Tyler Hardison is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of professional experience who specializes in DevOps, DevSecOps, and full-stack development, currently architecting resilient pipelines and cloud infrastructure at EverCharge. He has a proven track record of shrinking production downtime from hours to minutes, rearchitecting legacy systems, and resolving complex database performance and security issues across Node.js, Go, AWS, CircleCI, and Pulumi stacks. Tyler combines hands-on incident response with long-term architecture guidance, routinely advising teams on security posture and automated delivery. His background spans leadership roles from CTO to principal consultant in both startups and financial institutions, giving him a rare mix of operational rigor and strategic planning. Certified in CISSP, Linux+, and Security+, he brings formal security expertise to everyday engineering decisions. Based in Sequim, Washington, he often surfaces non-obvious failure modes in infrastructure design and turns them into practical, low-cost solutions.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Modesto Junior College/UCSC Extension
Information Technology, Information Technology at UCSC Extension