Tyler Schade
Steering Committee Member at GEICO
Miami, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolTyler Schade is a seasoned software engineer and steering committee member for Istio with 11 years of experience designing secure, resilient Unix and cloud-native systems. He architects and implements infrastructure, networking, and application-layer solutions that prioritize reliability and user simplicity, working across Go, Rust, C++ and C (and increasingly Zig). At GEICO he leads compute cluster management, workload identity and application networking for multitenant Kubernetes and service mesh environments, while continuing active contributions to Istio, OPA and Kubernetes. A prolific open-source maintainer and contributor—whose work includes back-end and tooling improvements to the widely used Open Policy Agent—he also helped ship high-performance cloud-native auth and networking features at solo.io. Tyler speaks regularly on security and cloud-native networking and maintains a habit of building practical tooling that hides complexity from end users. Based in Miami, he blends hands-on systems programming with release leadership and a pragmatic, security-first approach to infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied Mathematics at Temple University
English
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Github Skills (25)
opa10
authorizations10
command-line-interface10
policies10
open-policy-agent10
go10
rego10
authorization10
command-line10
cli10
automation9
automations9
build-tools8
release-management8
build-system8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
open-policy-agent/opa
Jun 2023 - Feb 2025
Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 9 PRs, 46 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Tyler contributed to the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project by implementing new features and fixing bugs related to the Rego language and the OPA command-line interface. Their work included adding formatting constants for time functions, adding options to the `check` command to filter files, and implementing the `--follow-symlinks` flag for the `build` command. The user also enhanced the `inspect` command to allow inspection of single files and addressed issues in the formatter and rule conflict detection.
policycompliancedogepoliciescloud-native
tjons/opa-envoy-plugin
Nov 2023 - Feb 2025
A plugin to enforce OPA policies with Envoy
Contributions:1 PR, 40 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 3 months
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