Tyler Pierce
Senior Software Engineer at Hiive
Renton, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTyler Pierce is a Senior Software Engineer based in Renton, WA with nine years of professional experience building full-stack systems across startups and large companies like Zillow and Assurance IQ. He brings deep, language-agnostic expertise in deployment, database design, and modernization work—from LAMP/PHP backends to Elixir/Erlang/OTP and functional front-end stacks like Elm. Tyler has worked with high-traffic sites and big-data stores (VoltDB, Couchbase, map/reduce patterns) and enjoys strategic refactors and tooling that bridge engineering and business goals. Comfortable shifting between OOP and functional styles, he pairs hands-on implementation with systems-level planning and project strategy. An economics background and early career in games and platform infrastructure give him a pragmatic, product-minded perspective that surfaces non-obvious tradeoffs in system design.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSC., Computer Science, Economics, BSC., Computer Science, Economics at University of Northern British Columbia
Github Skills (58)
shiny9
warc8
elixir8
erlang8
sigv48
finder8
graphql-subscriptions8
beam7
indexing7
reddit6
react6
aws6
indexer6
storage6
crawling6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
smileys-tavern/smileys_data
Aug 2017 - Nov 2019
Contributions:21 releases, 33 commits, 30 pushes in 2 years 3 months
praxis-of-nines/khafra-search
Dec 2018 - May 2021
Contributions:21 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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