Tyler Southwick
Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Mead, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolTyler Southwick is a Principal Engineer with 21 years of experience building cloud-native systems and governance tooling, currently driving AWS Control Services (Service Catalog and Control Tower) at Amazon Web Services. He spent several years at Nike shaping enterprise cloud governance and multi-cloud strategy, and earlier helped design and scale AWS Trusted Advisor for the Management Console. Tyler blends deep backend engineering (Java/Scala/Python) with strong operational and automation practice, and has contributed to open-source CI/CD tooling by improving test coverage for the Jenkins AWS pipeline plugin. Based in Mead, Washington, he pairs strategic architecture leadership with hands-on implementation and a penchant for reliability-focused testing that helps large organizations adopt cloud safely.
21 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Brigham Young University
French
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Github Skills (15)
unit-testing10
javas10
jenkins10
test-framework10
jenkins-ci10
aws-cloudformation10
junit10
aws10
mockito10
java10
jenkins-plugin10
testing10
jenkins-pipeline9
connect-iq6
scala6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jenkinsci/pipeline-aws-plugin
Feb 2018 - Nov 2020
Jenkins Pipeline Step Plugin for AWS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 67 commits, 39 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Tyler's contributions focused on adding unit tests around CloudFormation steps, enhancing the plugin's testing coverage. They added tests for functions like cfnValidate, cfnExports, and cfnExecuteChangeSet. The user also created tests for parameter file parsing, demonstrating a focus on ensuring the reliability and correctness of the AWS plugin. The work involved writing tests in Java and using mocking frameworks like Mockito and PowerMock.
jenkinspipeline-stepjenkins-pluginpipelinejenkins-api-plugin
northfuse/ifit-rs
Feb 2021 - Dec 2023
Contributions:10 PRs, 27 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 11 months
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