Tyler Thompson
Software Engineer at Slice
Swindon, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorTyler Thompson is a backend software engineer based in Swindon, England with eight years of experience building high-performance, lightweight bespoke applications primarily in C, Rust, and Go. He currently contributes to production systems at Slice after roles at Axiom and InfoSum, bringing practical experience from junior to mid-level positions across fintech and data-focused teams. Tyler gravitates toward low-level efficiency and systems-minded design, favoring languages that deliver speed and control while keeping runtime overhead minimal. Outside of work he’s an avid traveler and rhythm/FPS gamer, and is actively learning Dutch—an indication of his curiosity and appetite for disciplined practice. Colleagues would describe him as quietly relentless about performance tuning and pragmatic engineering trade-offs.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (42)
axiom10
discord10
discordgo10
web-vitals9
logger9
golang9
api9
compatibility9
python-bindings9
command-line-tool8
cli8
nodejs-api8
api-client8
nodejs7
sdk7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
blackmesadev/discordgo
Apr 2021 - May 2022
(Golang) Go bindings for Discord
Contributions:7 releases, 5 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 1 month
discordgolangdiscordgogo
blackmesadev/black-mesa
Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
An Aperture/Rowboat alternative written in Go for performance, with a target being that it can utilize existing configuration with no compatibility issues.
Contributions:1 review, 530 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 7 months
golangperformanceaperturecompatibility
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