Tyler Sullivan
Staff Software Engineer at hims & hers
Tacoma, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTyler Sullivan is a Staff Software Engineer with eight years of experience building cloud-native backend systems, CI/CD pipelines, and scalable multi-tenant applications across government and commercial sectors. Currently at hims & hers after senior engineering leadership at Smartsheet, he has a strong track record of improving platform reliability, developer workflows, and production readiness. He contributes to open-source tooling—most notably enhancing CycloneDX's cdxgen to improve BOM generation and dependency analysis for Go projects—bringing practical security and supply-chain awareness into developer tooling. Tyler pairs hands-on Go and backend engineering with systems reliability practices honed at Tyler Technologies, where he built core services and on-call processes for nationwide applications. Based in Tacoma, he combines technical leadership with a background in public-sector analysis and a BA in Political Science, which informs his thoughtful approach to product risk and stakeholder communication.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science at Pacific Lutheran University
Github Skills (8)
go-modules10
sbom10
go10
cyclonedx10
javascript6
docker4
cicd4
dockers4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
CycloneDX/cdxgen
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Creates CycloneDX Bill of Materials (BOM) for your projects from source and container images. Supports many languages and package managers. Integrate in your CI/CD pipeline with automatic submission to Dependency Track server. GPT: https://chatgpt.com/g/g-673bfeb4037481919be8a2cd1bf868d2-cdxgen
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 15 commits, 3 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily focused on enhancing the Go-based codebase of the cdxgen project. Their work centered around improving the generation of Bill of Materials (BOMs), particularly for Go projects, by modifying the logic for dependency analysis and checksum gathering. The user refactored and optimized code within the `utils.js` and `index.js` files, introducing new functionalities and addressing existing bugs. Key changes involved incorporating modifications to the go.mod and go.sum parsing logic, and introducing a flag to switch dependency generation method.
discordocipipelinedockercyclonedx
sullivtr/terraform-provider-graphql
Jun 2020 - Sep 2022
Terraform GraphQL plugin to automate the full life-cycle of graphql api resources.
Contributions:11 releases, 25 reviews, 109 commits in 2 years 3 months
apigraphql-apiapi-resourcescyclegraphql-plugin
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