Tyler Jewell
CEO & President at Akka
Lake Oswego, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolTyler Jewell is a four-time CEO/COO and enterprise-software operator with nearly three decades of experience building and scaling developer platforms and open-source infrastructure. Currently CEO & President of Akka, he has led exits including WSO2 and Codenvy and served as a managing director and investor focused on developer tools, cloud native platforms, and observability. Tyler blends hands-on engineering (notably backend contributions to the widely used Eclipse Che cloud IDE) with board-level strategy, helping F500s and startups adopt elastic, resilient architectures. Based in Lake Oswego, Oregon, he pairs operator instincts with venture perspective, repeatedly turning developer-centric products into acquisition targets.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (21)
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bash10
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system-configuration9
java9
configurations9
javas9
operating-system9
system9
docker8
kubernetes-pods8
dockers8
kubernetes8
tomcat6
maven6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
eclipse-che/che
Feb 2016 - Apr 2017
Kubernetes based Cloud Development Environments for Enterprise Teams
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 205 commits, 241 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily worked on the Che server application, making modifications to the `che.sh` scripts, which appear to be responsible for managing the application's environment and startup. These changes include adding checks for Java versions, adjusting the handling of environment variables, converting paths for Windows compatibility, and implementing options for blocking entropy. The commits show the user's work focusing on stability and ensuring the application runs correctly across different operating systems and configurations.
cloud-idecontainerstheiacloudide
codenvy-legacy/container-devops
Aug 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:43 commits, 21 PRs, 42 pushes in 11 months
containerskubernetesdockerdevops
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