Head of Engineering

Summary


Tyler is a seasoned technology executive with a proven track record of delivering success through results-driven, product-focused, engineering leadership. He has built, led, and scaled teams in larger organizations as well as in smaller, high-growth startup environments.

Skills


  • Team leadership and performance management
  • Strategic product development
  • Technology strategy and roadmap
  • Process and productivity improvement
  • Project management
  • Software architecture
  • Object oriented programming
  • Distributed systems
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Service-oriented architecture

Experience


VP of Engineering
OTTO Quotes, Miami, FL (Remote)

Sept 2023- Current

OTTO Quotes generates, manages, and optimizes quality, ready-to-close, exclusive insurance leads directly to agents and carriers in real-time. We are a digital broker for Auto, Home, Pet, Final Expense, and Life Insurance

I oversee the roadmap and development of our first-party lead-generation websites and our proprietary lead-routing and distribution platform


Technologies:

  • AWS
  • PHP / Python / Node.js
  • JavaScript / TypeScript / React.js / Next.js
  • MySQL
  • Redis

VP of Engineering
What If Media Group, New York City

Feb 2022- March 2023

What If Media Group is a leading advertising technology company that, with their secure, proprietary media and marketing channels, drives consumer acquisition through a combination of AI, first-party data, and insights.

I oversee 4 teams which comprise the Product Engineering department. In this role I am responsible for the planning and execution of the product roadmap supporting our first-party sites, list-management, and messaging (email/SMS/push) capabilities.

Key Accomplishments:

  • Delivered portions of a reimagined internal CMS that was scoped and built around users’ workflows resulting in fewer errors and many hours saved. This was a modernization effort and was built using a service-oriented architecture on top of a constellation of existing legacy backend services and newly built services.
  • I rolled out agile development practices across the entire product engineering department, greatly increasing the department’s efficiency and productivity.
  • Built a near-real time event stream to bridge the gap between disparate systems and replace periodic batch jobs with real time data processing.

Technologies:

  • AWS
  • Java / Python / Ruby (Rails) / Node.js
  • JavaScript / TypeScript / React.js
  • PostgreSQL / DynamoDB / MongoDB
  • Kafka
  • Redis
  • Snowflake
  • Docker / Kubernetes

Director of Software Engineering
What If Media Group, New York City

Apr 2021- Feb 2022

I manage multiple teams working in concert to deliver scalable solutions that support the product roadmap.

Key Accomplishments

  • Launched and managed a new engineering team responsible for cross-team data pipeline and data transformation projects.
  • Built a new service that acted as a single source of truth for tens of millions of users’ data and received and processed millions of events daily.
  • Maintained a high-standard of code quality through encouraging tracking of quality metrics and testing.

Technologies:

  • AWS
  • Java / JavaScript / React.js / Python / Go
  • PostgreSQL / MongoDB / DynamoDB
  • Snowflake
  • Kafka
  • Redis
  • Docker / Kubernetes

Senior Engineering Manager
What If Media Group, New York City

June 2020- Apr 2021

I run the team responsible for the applications supporting the acquisition of hundreds of thousands of users daily.

Key Accomplishments:

  • Introduced agile development methodology to the organization.
  • Established monitoring and alerting around baseline performance metrics, decreasing the team’s response time to production issues and ensuring new releases did not degrade performance.
  • Improved the team’s ability to deliver milestones within the committed time and with fewer bugs.

Technologies:

  • AWS
  • Java / JavaScript / React.js / Python / Go
  • PostgreSQL
  • Snowflake
  • Redis
  • Docker / Kubernetes
  • Jenkins

Engineering Manager
Conductor, New York City

Apr 2019- June 2020

I manage a distributed engineering team responsible for test infrastructure and product delivery for over a dozen feature teams working with a polyglot technology stack.

Key Accomplishments:

  • Facilitated code quality improvements by introducing code analysis to the CI/CD pipeline for the entire engineering organization.
  • Introduced on-demand environments to better support acceptance testing and reduced time to production.

Technologies:

  • AWS
  • Java / Scala / Python / Go
  • JavaScript / TypeScript / React.js
  • MySQL
  • Docker / Kubernetes
  • Cucumber
  • Selenium
  • Jenkins

VP / Director of Engineering
Tibrio (formerly part of Zeeto), New York City

Oct 2016- Feb 2019

Tibrio, a spinout from Zeeto, connects advertisers with targeted, first-party audiences that are ripe for monetization. Through its proprietary technology and various web properties, Tibrio acquires over 100k new users every day, sells 1+ million leads each day, and sends 2+ billion emails per year.

I was recruited into Tibrio to build and grow the engineering and technology operations for the company. Partnering with the CPO, I scoped and prioritized our product and technology roadmap. I hired a lean team of 6 and used an agile development process to iterate on our consumer-facing web properties, optimizing for conversions, engagement, and revenue.

Key Accomplishments:

  • Established a culture of product-focused engineering.
  • Instituted code review and QA processes and implemented a CI/CD pipeline.
  • Reduced AWS monthly costs by 52% through capacity planning, right-sizing our infrastructure, and autoscaling.
  • Launched a re-imagined concept for one of our sites, increasing monthly revenue by $50k
  • Minimized email delivery costs by building a proprietary email marketing solution responsible for ~5M emails per day.
  • Collaborate with the rest of the executive team to determine project scope and identify meaningful KPIs and ensure those KPIs are met.

Technologies:

  • AWS
  • PHP / Python / Node.js
  • MySQL
  • Docker
  • RabbitMQ
  • Redis
  • Elasticsearch
  • Selenium

Director of Engineering
Zeeto, San Diego, CA

Jul 2015- Oct 2016

Zeeto is an ad network that uses questions to discover data and then uses the answers to target ads.

Reporting directly to the CTO, I manage a growing engineering team and am responsible for the complete development lifecycle of our groundbreaking registration marketing SaaS platform. I work closely with the Devops, Business Intelligence, Data Science, and Optimization teams to lead product-focused engineering efforts. I oversee all infrastructure and code architecture decisions to ensure our various applications are scalable and resilient.

Key Accomplishments:

  • Act as chief architect in the development of our proprietary lead routing platform. This effectively saved over $60k by not having to rely on a 3rd party tool for lead delivery.
  • Assumed ownership over the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
  • Enforce code reviews, ensuring that code meets quality standards and is thoroughly tested. This resulted in fewer defects released to production.
  • Work closely with the product team to deliver quality products while following an agile-based workflow.

Technologies:

  • AWS
  • PHP / Java
  • MySQL / MongoDB
  • Selenium
  • Docker
  • Mesosphere DC/OS
  • RabbitMQ
  • Redis
  • Jenkins CI

Senior Software Engineer
Zeeto, San Diego, CA

Oct 2011- Jul 2015

Zeeto is an ad network that uses questions to discover data and then uses the answers to target ads.

I joined Zeeto as the second technical hire and was responsible for the redevelopment of our core data monetization platform.

Key Accomplishments:

  • Introduced unit/functional testing and TDD methodologies to the business resulting in fewer bugs in production.
  • Built CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments to our various environments, decreasing effort and time required to execute deployments.
  • Worked on architecture and development of our internal data monetization and lead generation platform.
  • Took over ownership of the provisioning and management of infrastructure on AWS

Technologies:

  • AWS
  • PHP (Symfony framework)
  • MongoDB / MySQL
  • Behat / Selenium
  • RabbitMQ
  • Redis
  • Jenkins CI

Software Developer
Applus+ RTD, Bakersfield, CA

May 2010- Oct 2011

Applus+ RTD is an international company specialized in non destructive testing and Inspections.

I worked on a small team to administer on-site servers and to build software projects for clients.

Key Accomplishments:

  • Combine large amounts of geospatial data to build reports that tracked the inspection of oilfield pipelines.
  • Administer a network of windows and linux servers to host over a dozen client-facing websites.
  • Work with management (internal and 3rd party) to gather requirements and plan out software projects tailored specifically to the client’s needs.

Technologies:

  • PHP
  • Linux
  • Apache
  • IIS
  • MySQL / MSSQL
  • VMWare ESXi