Tyler Ward
Engineering Manager at Washington Homebrewers Association
Vancouver, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolTyler Ward is an engineering manager with 11 years in infrastructure and platform engineering and over eight years focused on web and application hosting. He combines hands-on DevOps skills—Kubernetes, container tooling, CI/CD and cloud migrations—with team leadership to improve developer workflows and enable reliable production deployments. At The Zebra he progressed from senior DevOps engineer to engineering manager, and earlier built scalable hosting platforms at amazee.io and Metal Toad. An active open-source contributor, Tyler improved integrations in projects like IngressMonitorController and helped add GitLab/OpenShift webhook support to Lagoon, showing a knack for bridging platform reliability and developer experience. Based in Vancouver, Washington, he pairs pragmatic problem-solving with continuous learning—and outside of work channels his technical curiosity into the local homebrewing community where he serves as vice chair.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
AAS Information Technology - Computer Network Systems, AAS Information Technology - Computer Network Systems at ITT Technical Insitute
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Github Skills (25)
kubernetes10
controller10
webhooks10
ingress10
cicd10
go10
openshift10
kubernetes-pods10
dockers9
apidoc9
docker9
api9
rabbitmq8
testing8
jquery-ui6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
uselagoon/lagoon
Jul 2017 - Feb 2022
Lagoon, the developer-focused application delivery platform
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 641 commits, 95 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Tyler contributed to the development of the Lagoon platform, specifically focusing on integrating GitLab hooks and related webhook handling. The commits involved extracting data from GitLab hooks, modifying the codebase to support the GitLab event type, and integrating with OpenShift deployment pipelines. Additionally, the user made changes to the task queueing system, setting up retries and error handling for deployment tasks.
delivery-platformfocusedlagoonapplication-delivery
stakater/IngressMonitorController
Mar 2020 - Feb 2021
A Kubernetes controller to watch ingresses and create liveness alerts for your apps/microservices in UptimeRobot, StatusCake, Pingdom, etc. – [✩Star] if you're using it!
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 3 PRs, 12 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the UptimeRobot integration within the Ingress Monitor Controller. Their contributions included adding the ability to override alert contacts for individual monitors, retrieving and mapping alert contacts from UptimeRobot responses, and updating the codebase to handle these changes. They also added unit tests for alert contact overrides and addressed issues related to status page IDs and POST request bodies. This work involved modifying code related to data retrieval, mapping, and annotation handling, demonstrating a focus on improving the integration's features.
monitorcontrolleruptimerobotuptime-checkeropenshift
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