Tyler Poland
Lead Database Administrator
Town of Clarence, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTyler Poland is a seasoned database and operations leader with 16 years of experience designing, tuning, and supporting database infrastructure across cloud and on-prem environments. Currently serving as Lead Database Administrator at CarNow while advising platforms and consulting independently, he blends hands-on engineering—MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, backups, replication—with operational leadership gained running global support and professional services teams. At Engine Yard he built tooling for AWS monitoring, backup automation, and config management (Chef/Puppet), and contributed NOC and MySQL replication scripts used in production-grade cloud stacks. He’s effective at turning customer needs into product improvements and measurable team performance gains, having managed large-scale AWS reservations and led problem-management reviews. Based in Clarence, NY, he brings a pragmatic, reliability-first approach and a knack for automating repeatable ops work that reduces toil.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS - Computer Science Computer Science, BS - Computer Science Computer Science at University at BuffaloAS - Computer Science Computer Science, AS - Computer Science Computer Science at Niagara County Community College
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Github Skills (16)
monitoring10
chef-client10
cron10
chef-solo10
devops10
mysql10
ruby10
automation9
automations9
database-administration9
heroku6
amazon-aurora6
amazon-web-services6
sharding6
scaling6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
engineyard/ey-cloud-recipes
Dec 2010 - Aug 2017
A starter repo for custom chef recipes on EY's cloud platform. These are for reference, and do not indicate a supported status.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:68 commits, 29 PRs, 46 pushes in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily focused on automating and configuring the deployment and management of applications and infrastructure within the Engine Yard cloud platform. They implemented and configured monitoring and alerting for MySQL replication, including the creation of Ruby scripts and cron jobs. Furthermore, they updated the system's configuration related to database backups and database client libraries to support the project's objectives. They have also addressed several infrastructure and configuration issues, improving system stability.
recipescookbookrecipechef-recipesstatus
Qarik-Group/sw-concourse-training
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
Support release and pipeline templates for Stark & Wayne Concourse training single day Session.
Contributions:42 commits, 4 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 month
pipelineconcoursedaypipeline-templatestraining
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