Tyler Lawson
Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Operations
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolTyler Lawson is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience evolving from a full-stack LAMP developer into an SRE leader driving reliability and operational excellence at SoundHound. He has deep expertise in infrastructure as code and automation—Ansible, Terraform, and Packer—paired with a background managing hundreds of production servers across AWS and colo environments. Tyler mentors and leads teams, pushing adoption of modern practices while retaining a developer’s attention to clean, testable systems from his Symfony/PHP roots. Comfortable on-call and in crisis, he combines pragmatic troubleshooting with strategic platform improvements to reduce toil and increase stability. Based in Old Toronto, he’s motivated by learning new technologies and exploring the “unknown” corners of systems engineering to keep teams ahead of failure modes.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Northview Heights Secondary School
French
Github Skills (98)
python10
coredns10
gcp10
dns10
ssh10
dns-record10
ansible10
route5310
aws-route5310
ingress10
aws10
external-dns9
automation9
devops9
infrastructure-as-code9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rfdy/imagemagick
Oct 2015 - Jul 2018
RFD ImageMagick library
Contributions:1 release, 4 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 9 months
imagemagickrfd
lawsontyler/PlexPlugin-WatchCartoon
Apr 2017 - Aug 2018
WatchCartoon Channel Plugin for Plex
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 1 year 4 months
pluginplex
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