Tyler Willingham
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Parachute Health
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolTyler Willingham is a Senior Staff Engineer with 12 years of experience building maintainable, production-focused platforms and catalog systems, currently leading Parachute Health’s transition to an AI-native R&D organization. He favors pragmatic, community-trusted libraries and clear, “boring” code that’s approachable to junior engineers while enabling large-scale reliability across Rails monoliths and distributed serverless services. His background spans fast-moving product domains—logistics, fulfillment, healthcare—and includes introducing Elasticsearch and critical catalog versioning/publication infrastructure to improve search and ordering workflows. Tyler blends hands-on engineering with team enablement, having coached engineers as an engineering manager and established new teams like Eligibility & Benefits. He’s a Rubyist comfortable across full-stack and cloud-native stacks, with a track record of scaling patient datasets and shipping iterative, maintainable improvements in high-stakes systems. Colocating in San Diego, he brings a bias for practical stewardship: minimizing accidental maintenance work so teams can focus on core product outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Columbia-Area Career CenterGeneral Ed., General Ed. at Hickman High School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (59)
faraday10
dry-rb10
ruby-client10
datadog10
json9
ruby9
apm9
distributed-tracing9
rails-api9
uri9
idp9
activemodel9
slug8
authentication8
plugin8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tylerwillingham/overengineered
Oct 2023 - Sep 2024
This is a deliberately overengineered example of a Rails app to demonstrate some modularity practices
Contributions:28 PRs, 64 pushes, 28 branches in 10 months
modular-railsrailsruby
tylerwillingham/resume
Mar 2015 - Oct 2024
Contributions:34 pushes, 3 branches in 9 years 8 months
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