Tyler Lynch
Field CTO at Columbia University
United States
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Top SchoolTyler Lynch is a Field CTO and technical solutions architect with 20+ years of hands-on experience designing scalable, fault-tolerant systems across colocation, private/public cloud, and air-gapped environments. He blends executive-level strategic guidance with developer-first engineering, helping organizations choose pragmatic paths—lift-and-shift, cloud-native rewrites, or hybrid—to meet product and regulatory needs. A strong advocate for people and process, he builds repeatable enablement mechanisms that accelerate projects, cut costs, and raise the quality bar. Tyler is a top contributor and core maintainer in the Terraform ecosystem, notably enhancing the widely used AWS provider with DB2 RDS support, which reflects his focus on real-world integration and code quality. He teaches cloud and distributed systems at Columbia University and consistently pairs deep technical expertise with customer-facing leadership to drive multi-product adoption.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
CS PS, CS PS at University of Pittsburgh
English
Github Skills (8)
terraformer10
db210
aws10
terraform10
testing9
go-testing9
go9
sql8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
The AWS Provider enables Terraform to manage AWS resources.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:189 reviews, 166 commits, 17 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily contributed to enhancing the AWS provider for Terraform, focusing on adding support for the DB2 database engine within the RDS service. This involved writing new test cases, modifying existing configurations, and adjusting the codebase to accommodate DB2-specific parameters and configurations. Further contributions include fixing linting issues and merging in updated configurations, indicating a focus on code quality and integration.
providerterraform-modulesaws-terraform-providerterraformterraform-provider
AdamTylerLynch/terraform-provider-aws
Oct 2020 - Oct 2024
Terraform AWS provider
Contributions:4 PRs, 98 pushes, 23 branches in 3 years 11 months
providerterraform-modulesaws-terraform-providerterraformterraform-provider
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