Tyler Reid
Senior Observability SRE at CoreWeave
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTyler Reid is a Senior Observability SRE and backend engineer based in Chicago with five years focused on building and operating large, distributed systems. He has strong hands-on experience at Grafana Labs and CoreWeave working on scalable Prometheus long-term storage (Mimir/Cortex) and cloud-hosted metrics, including performance limits, streaming ingesters, and query-level resource guards. Tyler combines production reliability work with DevOps and backend development—he contributed AWS SNS integration for Alertmanager and helped modernize code across dskit, distributor and querier components. Known for squeezing order-of-magnitude gains from storage and indexing work earlier in his career, he brings an aspiring-architect mindset to operational problems and a track record of shipping robust, test-covered features in open-source observability projects.
5 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Purdue University
Github Skills (31)
unit-testing10
apim10
kubernetes10
docker10
back-end-development10
api-design10
amazon-sns10
testing10
dockers10
integrations10
go10
prometheus10
api10
aws10
kubernetes-pods10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/mimir
May 2021 - Oct 2022
Grafana Mimir provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 releases, 63 reviews, 63 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily worked on enhancing the Grafana Mimir codebase, focusing on features related to long-term storage and query performance. Their contributions include implementing support for series per query limits in block storage and streaming ingesters, along with adding a new configuration and metric for reporting ruler query execution wall time. They also made several improvements related to the distributor and querier, adding a max-chunks-bytes-per-query limiter and addressing various testing-related issues. The user also refactored code and updated the codebase to use dskit.
tenantobservabilitygrafanaprometheusstorage
prometheus/alertmanager
Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
Prometheus Alertmanager
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:21 reviews, 34 commits, 1 PR in 1 month
Contributions summary:Tyler implemented an SNS (Simple Notification Service) receiver for the Alertmanager, enabling it to send notifications via AWS. They added features for authentication using SigV4, supporting role-based access, and message truncation. The user also worked on the configuration aspects, integrating the SNS configuration into the Alertmanager's settings. This contribution focused on expanding the notification capabilities of the Alertmanager by integrating it with the AWS SNS service.
opsgenieprometheus-exporterpagerdutyemaildeduplication
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