Tyler Phelan
Software Engineer at Workgrounds
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTyler Phelan is a software engineer with 11 years' experience building cloud-native tooling and automation, currently working at Workgrounds in New York. He helped design and ship enterprise-grade buildpack and container build systems at Pivotal/VMware—contributions to Cloud Native Buildpacks, kpack and Tanzu Build Service that drove substantial platform adoption and early revenue. Tyler blends backend engineering with DevOps and technical writing, improving CI/CD, test infrastructure, and documentation across multiple language buildpacks (Ruby, Node, Python, PHP, staticfile). He has deep practical experience modernizing build and release pipelines, automating dependency and security workflows, and resolving platform-scale integration issues. A pragmatic leader who’s led engineering teams and platform migrations, he also contributes to well-known open-source projects where his work often focuses on reliability, testability and maintainability.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science Physics, Bachelor of Science Computer Science Physics at Georgetown College, Georgetown University
Github Skills (28)
kubernetes10
github-ci10
docker10
cloud-foundry10
python10
pipenv10
testing10
vb610
dockers10
cicd10
ruby10
vbe10
vbnet10
automation10
go10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
buildpacks-community/kpack
Dec 2019 - Oct 2022
Kubernetes Native Container Build Service
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:330 reviews, 269 commits, 159 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily contributed to the maintenance and enhancement of the kpack project, focusing on dependency upgrades and refactoring. They upgraded module dependencies like `knative.dev/pkg` and fixed import issues related to `github.com/docker/docker`. The user also addressed build-related issues, including the handling of FAT-formatted jars and error conditions during blob fetching, while also updating build scripts and lifecycle versions. They made changes to improve build log messages and modified build pod configuration.
containersdockerkuberneteskubernetes-nativecloud-native
cloudfoundry/ruby-buildpack
May 2018 - Jun 2019
Cloud Foundry buildpack for Ruby, Sinatra and Rails
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:27 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily contributed to improving the build and test processes for the Ruby buildpack. They removed deprecated node versions and modified integration tests to adapt to changes in the platform environment. The user adjusted the build process by implementing environment variable support to integrate buildpacks, and updated scripts for testing with Go modules and vendoring dependencies. Additionally, the user updated the ginkgo test configuration.
foundrysinatrarailscloud-foundryv2b
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