Tyler Van Gorder
Software Engineer at Netflix
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolTyler Van Gorder is a seasoned software engineer and platform specialist with over a decade of experience building and modernizing large-scale Java systems, currently at Netflix after leadership roles at 84.51˚ and Moderne. He helped design and implement automated migration tooling at Moderne and is an active contributor to the OpenRewrite project, improving Java refactoring capabilities that enable mass framework upgrades and CVE remediation. Previously he ran Build.com’s Java-based REST API platform that processed hundreds of millions of weekly requests, led migrations from Java 8 to newer runtimes, and introduced domain-driven design and paved-road practices. Known for blending hands-on engineering with technical leadership, he mentors teams, speaks at conferences, and writes about migration engineering—bringing pragmatic solutions to long-lived enterprise codebases.
10 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at California State University, Chico
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Github Skills (13)
javas10
refactoring10
javaparser10
java10
code-generation9
javadoc8
openrewrite6
netflix6
spring-cloud6
design-patterns6
spring6
spring-boot6
spring-test6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openrewrite/rewrite
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
Automated mass refactoring of source code.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 217 reviews, 420 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily contributed to the OpenRewrite project by working on Java refactoring tools. Their work focused on improving the `AddImport` refactoring by handling static method imports more effectively. They also added support for the use of property placeholders and added javadoc comments, demonstrating a focus on code quality and usability.
masspythonastabstract-syntax-treerefactoring
tkvangorder/spring-boot
Oct 2018 - Sep 2019
Spring Boot
Contributions:2 PRs, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
spring-bootspringframeworkspringjavaspring-security
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