Tyler Larson
Software Engineer at Contract / On-Demand
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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SeniorTyler Larson is a senior software and security engineer with over 20 years of experience designing, building, and hardening complex systems, most recently spending eight years at Google improving Google Cloud for high-security workloads. He thrives on steep learning curves and is the go-to engineer for problems others avoid, combining hands-on coding with high-level architecture, security analysis, and team leadership. Tyler has grown teams, defined engineering norms and quality standards at scale, and taught extensively to raise org-wide capability. His background spans low-latency trading infrastructure to cloud security, giving him a rare view of both performance-critical systems and adversarial failure modes. An active community contributor, he’s consistently ranked among the top security contributors on Security.StackExchange and top 1% on StackOverflow, reflecting deep practical knowledge and a habit of finding subtle edge cases. Now based in the Greater Seattle area, he’s open to full-time roles after a period of high-impact contract work.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
30,407reputation
5.5mreached
264answers
28questions
unix
top-5%
network-programming
top-5%
mysql
top-1%
javascript
top-5%
indentation
top-5%
android
top-5%
Github Skills (74)
security10
wordpress10
database10
mysql10
proguard10
unix9
javascript9
linux9
indentation9
uppercase9
hash9
html9
list-comprehension9
python9
bash9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tylerl/netfwd
May 2014 - Feb 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 1 push in 3 years 10 months
tylerl/util
Apr 2012 - Mar 2016
Contributions:22 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years 11 months
stand-alonestandbashutility-scriptsshell
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