Tyler Slaton
Senior Software Engineer at CopilotKit🪁
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTyler Slaton is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of hands-on experience building cloud-native and AI-driven products, currently focused on shipping production-grade AI experiences at CopilotKit. He combines backend systems expertise in Go, Kubernetes, and Docker with daily work in TypeScript/Next.js and LLM integrations (OpenAI, Claude), bridging infrastructure and AI application layers. His background includes roles at Red Ventures, Red Hat, and Acorn Labs where he implemented deployment frameworks, credential validation, and service-account permissioning for Kubernetes-based platforms. Comfortable across AWS, Terraform, Python, and React, Tyler has a track record of turning ambiguous requirements into reliable, monitored production systems. Based in Charlotte, NC, he’s an active engineer contributor to open-source deployment tooling and is particularly interested in improving the AI agent experience.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
English
Github Skills (12)
configuration-management10
authentication10
kubernetes10
go10
authorization10
kubernetes-pods10
auth10
testing9
apidoc9
go-testing9
api9
cicd8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
acorn-io/runtime
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
A simple application deployment framework built on Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 716 reviews, 39 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily contributed to the backend of the `acorn-io/runtime` repository, focusing on features related to application deployment and configuration. They implemented credential validation for login functionality, and enhanced deployment logic by creating unique ServiceAccounts for services and applying permissions. Additionally, they added an install flag for formatting HTTP endpoints and validated memory settings. The user worked extensively with Go and Kubernetes.
kubernetes-deploymentdevopsdeploymentdockerkubernetes
operator-framework/combo
Nov 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:186 reviews, 60 commits, 44 PRs in 2 months
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