Tyler Pickett
Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Drata
Nixa, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolTyler Pickett is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with 15 years of experience building and operating reliable cloud systems, currently wrangling AWS at Drata from his home base in Nixa, Missouri. He blends deep backend expertise and SRE practices with a history as a full‑stack engineer and former CTO, making him comfortable from architecture down to test suites. Tyler is an active open‑source contributor in the Ruby ecosystem, improving authentication and JWT libraries and strengthening test coverage for widely used projects. His work shows a pattern of modernizing legacy code—removing deprecated dependencies, enhancing verifiability, and prioritizing maintainability and backward compatibility. Collected skills in automation, observability, and secure auth flows make him a practical problem solver who prefers durable, well-tested solutions over flashy hacks.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.S, Mechanical Engineering, B.S, Mechanical Engineering at 2003 - 2007 University of MissouriM.S, Mechanical Engineering, M.S, Mechanical Engineering at University of Missouri
Github Skills (14)
test-automation10
unit-testing10
activerecord10
rspec10
error-handling10
tdd10
oauth10
jwt10
ruby10
backward-compatibility9
testing9
api8
security8
apidoc8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rubycas/rubycas-server
Sep 2012 - May 2013
Provides single sign-on authentication for web applications, implementing the server-end of Jasig's CAS protocol.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:66 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily focused on refactoring and improving the codebase for the RubyCAS-Server. Their contributions involved replacing deprecated utility functions and dependencies, such as removing external dependencies for random string generation and integrating `urlsafe_base64`. They also modernized the code by removing deprecated functions and updating the test suite. The user's work was focused on improving the maintainability and functionality of the CAS server implementation.
web-applicationssignsingle-sign-onauthenticationsign-on
roo-rb/roo
Jul 2012 - Jul 2012
Roo provides an interface to spreadsheets of several sorts.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:22 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily contributed to improving the test suite for the `roo-rb/roo` repository, focused on providing an interface to spreadsheets. They extracted common test items into helper files, added new test files, and expanded test coverage for the generic spreadsheet functionality. They also refactored existing tests and converted the test syntax to shoulda.
xlsxexcelreaderxlssortsroo
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