Tyler Lugger is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating backend systems, currently focused on product and platform work after roles as Staff Engineer and Principal Architect at Bitly and Dayforward. He specializes in Go-based microservices, REST APIs, caching and database performance tuning, and has driven production readiness through monitoring, alerting, and disaster recovery. Tyler has a track record of translating product needs into deliverable backlogs, mentoring engineers, and improving incident response processes as a co-lead on-call. Early work includes IoT and computer vision integration and hands-on DevOps with Kubernetes, Terraform, GCP and AWS, reflecting a full-lifecycle engineering perspective. Based in Thornton, Colorado and a CU Boulder CS graduate, he combines a growth mindset with a habit of turning operational pain points into long-term engineering strategy. Colleagues would note his mix of pragmatic engineering and continuous learning that keeps teams shipping reliably at scale.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
Functions to run analysis on an exported OpsGenie alert CSV
Contributions:25 commits, 9 PRs, 24 pushes in 15 days
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Tyler Lugger - Senior Software Engineer at Dayforward