Tyler Wanek
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon
Tempe, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolTyler Wanek is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable, low-level backend systems and tooling, now at Amazon in Tempe, Arizona. He has a strong C/C++ systems background demonstrated by substantial contributions to libgit2 and nodegit—adding commit-signing during rebase and modernizing native bindings and builds—and implemented efficient Linux file-watching in Axosoft’s cross-platform nsfw project. Tyler focuses on continually improving code quality, documentation, and maintainability, and takes pride in iterating each program to be more fluent and efficient than the last. He blends hands-on engineering with QA and build automation experience, ensuring features are delivered and well-tested across platforms. A persistent learner, he methodically masters topics he pursues, turning subtle improvements into tangible reliability gains.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Arizona State University
Github Skills (20)
git10
c-language10
multithreading10
testing10
linux10
c1110
filesystemwatcher10
inotify10
c1710
version-control10
cprogramming-language10
file-monitoring10
standard-library9
common-library9
c-library9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nodegit/nodegit
Jul 2015 - Jun 2021
Native Node bindings to Git.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Build Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Build Automation EngineerContributions:38 releases, 24 reviews, 534 commits in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Tyler contributed to the `nodegit/nodegit` repository by updating the underlying libgit2 library and ensuring its integration with the project. This included upgrading to a new version of the library, adapting the code to its API changes, and refactoring code. Furthermore, the user worked on enhancing the project's build processes by addressing build errors, improving the build system's support for various operating systems, and integrating it with third-party libraries.
electronwindowsjavascriptlibgit2c-plus-plus
Axosoft/nsfw
Aug 2015 - Mar 2021
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 37 reviews, 307 commits in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Tyler implemented a new `InotifyService` class along with related classes `InotifyTree` and `InotifyEventLoop`, which handle file watching functionality on Linux. These classes manage the directory structure, event handling, and thread management for efficient file system monitoring. The user also refactored the code by moving constants and wrapping internal methods with friend classes.
super-fastmonitorwindowsosxjavascript
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