Tyler Pettitt
Norfolk,NE
Summary
Experienced Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience architecting scalable SaaS platforms and leading high-performing teams in .NET and Azure environments. As the founding engineer for Fastpath’s Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) product, delivered a multi-tenant, event-driven microservices architecture that drove acquisition by Delinea in April 2024. Expertise includes system design, performance optimization, and security. Hired and mentored 6 engineers, revamped hiring processes, and drove OKRs to align technical strategy with business goals. Passionate about hands-on coding, mentoring, and strategic roadmap planning.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Principal Software Engineer
Fastpath Solutions, LLC
01.2024 - Current
- Company Overview: Acquired by Delinea
- Architected Delinea’s Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) pillar, delivering a multi-tenant, event-driven microservices platform across 7 Azure regions, driving acquisition by Delinea in April 2024.
- Developed an AES-256-CBC-HMAC-SHA256 cipher service for secure data encryption/decryption, eliminating all critical, high, and medium vulnerabilities across 4 services using Snyk.
- Led integration of platform and Azure services (OAuth, Redis, RabbitMQ, SignalR, Azure Key Vault, Permissions, Feature Flagging, Multitenancy), enhancing security and performance for 1M+ daily transactions.
- Hired and mentored 6 engineers (entry to senior), revamping hiring with interactive pair-coding interviews and updating wikis, reducing onboarding time by 20%.
- Drove OKRs and roadmap planning, aligning technical strategy with business goals, and provided performance reviews for 5 peers.
- Contributed to Delinea’s platform Helm charts and ADO templates, enabling dynamic file mounting for containerized deployments.
- Acquired by Delinea
Senior Software Engineer
Fastpath Solutions, LLC
04.2022 - 01.2024
- Implemented Datadog telemetry and monitoring for .NET microservices, reducing incident response time by 50% through proactive issue detection across 6 Azure regions.
- Owned multi-tenancy service, managing 1,500 tenants’ configurations and database connections, achieving 99.99% uptime and 60ms p95 latency.
- Leveraged Azure Cache for Redis with cache-aside strategy, improving identity import performance by 7 seconds per identity (15 identities/second/tenant).
- Built Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, achieving 80% unit test coverage with xUnit and Moq, enforcing quality gates to maintain code reliability.
- Developed .NET background workers using MassTransit and RabbitMQ, scheduling jobs with Quartz.NET, processing 10,000+ daily reports.
- Designed OpenAPI-compliant REST APIs with paging schemas handling millions of requests per day.
Software Engineer
Hy-Vee, Inc.
11.2021 - 04.2022
- Developed a Slack bot using Python and Bolt Framework, automating creation and assignment of 1,500 Jira tickets for new store setups, saving 3 weeks of stale progress throughout the new store setup process.
- Led discovery meetings with 10 team leads to identify automation opportunities, enhancing cross-team collaboration and process efficiency.
- Containerized Slack bot with Docker, deploying via Concourse CI to Google Cloud Platform, achieving 100% test coverage with coverage.py and unittest.mock.
Software Engineer II
University of Nebraska Medical Center
07.2021 - 11.2021
- Built a PHP WebAPI serving 700,000–1,000,000 daily photos to Epic’s bedside app, improving patient comfort by enabling care provider verification.
- Developed a Laravel-based Symptom Tracker app for Nebraska Medicine, aiding telehealth prioritization for Nebraska’s public, recognized by the Wall Street Journal.
- Automated testing of 3,000+ stored procedures using Laravel and PHP 7.4, saving 3 months of manual effort during a Sybase-to-SQL Server migration.
Software Engineer I
University of Nebraska Medical Center
08.2019 - 07.2021
- Integrated MuleSoft APIs with Epic and Sailpoint for a Digital Front Door mobile app, streamlining patient access for 50,000+ users.
- Acted as security liaison, collaborating with University of Nebraska campuses to implement cybersecurity best practices, training 15 developers.
- Mentored 5 developers on SDLC, versioning, and modern technologies, improving team delivery speed by 15%.
Software Engineer
Daycos
03.2018 - 08.2019
- Developed a GraphQL API with Svelte.js and Express, reducing hardcoded logic by 30% and improving UI data querying efficiency.
- Experimented with Google Vision for weight ticket recognition, achieving 60% accuracy and reducing manual input by 20%.
- Built a C# REST API with 21 Apollo GraphQL endpoints, documented via OneNote, enhancing developer onboarding.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Wayne State College
Wayne, NE05.2018
Associate of Arts - General Studies
Northeast Community College
Norfolk, NE05.2016
Skills
- Languages: C#, T-SQL, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript
- Libraries: XUnit, Moq, QuartzNET, MassTransit
- Frameworks: NET 6, NET 7, NET 8, NET 9, NET Framework, Laravel, GraphQL
- Databases: SQL Server, Cosmos DB, Redis
- Observability & Security: Datadog, Snyk, OAuth, Encryption Strategy
- Cloud & DevOps: Azure (App Services, Functions, Redis, SignalR, Key Vault, Cosmos DB, SQL Database, Application Insights), Kubernetes, Docker, Azure DevOps (Pipelines, Repos), Terraform
- Messaging & APIs: RabbitMQ, REST, OpenAPI/Swagger, SignalR
- Methodologies: Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Test-Driven Development (TDD), CI/CD, Agile
Soft Skills
- Conflict resolution
- Roadmap planning
- Stakeholder management
- Mentoring
Hobbies and Interests
- Bitcoin blockchain
- Open-source contributions
- Self-hosted infrastructure
Professional Development
- Udemy Course: Principles of Secure Coding, 2023
- Community Contributions: Forked and enhanced ckpool Bitcoin mining project with improved configuration documentation, hosted on GitHub.
Timeline
Principal Software Engineer
Fastpath Solutions, LLC
01.2024 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
Fastpath Solutions, LLC
04.2022 - 01.2024
Software Engineer
Hy-Vee, Inc.
11.2021 - 04.2022
Software Engineer II
University of Nebraska Medical Center
07.2021 - 11.2021
Software Engineer I
University of Nebraska Medical Center
08.2019 - 07.2021
Software Engineer
Daycos
03.2018 - 08.2019
Associate of Arts - General Studies
Northeast Community College
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Wayne State College
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