# Tyler Gibbons

> Area Lead | Alerts & Notifications @ Metronome

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/tylergibbons

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Metronome
Jan 2023 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Dandy
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
* Built out and refactored patient scheduling service, hitting deployment goals weeks ahead of schedule
* Elimited false-alarm JWT auth errors, saving thousands of dollars a month in Sentry spend
* Led company wide upgrade efforts from Node12 to Node18 with no negative customer impact
* Upgraded several years of aging dependencies, eliminating hundreds of known security vulnerabilities
* Replaced yarn/lerna node dependency management with pnpm, drastically improving local dev experience

### Staff Software Engineer @ Afterpay
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
* Maintained family of web scrapers; reducing data inconsistencies between Afterpay & Enterprise merchants
* Built team to revamp authentication and authorization for 80000+ merchants
* Led rapid-rebuild of Shopify Payment Gateway, preserving approx. 400M in top-line revenue
* Collaborated with tech leadership working group to draft and codify "Paved Road" engineering standards

### Senior Software Engineer @ Afterpay
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021

### Member Of Technical Staff @ Afterpay
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020

### Software Engineer @ Flexport
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
* Reduced compliance risk and overall cost-to-serve as eng subject matter expert on dangerous goods
* Built critical dangerous goods compliance subsystem, product indicators, and reporting dashboards
* Led automated air waybill generation project, saving $50k/week on document generation fees ex-HKG
* Interviewed up to four engineering candidates per week, helping grow Flexport headcount by 2x

### Distributed Systems Engineer @ Yelp
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, California, United States
* Maintained and improved highly automated Cassandra and Elasticsearch deployment/monitoring systems
* Reduced deploy time of data proxy layer by order of magnitude, saving 1250+ engineering hours per year
* Ran weekly team office hours meetings, providing assistance with provisioning, data modeling, etc.
* Developed roadmap and guided cross-functional teams integrating graph database for user/business data

### Watchapps Development Contractor @ Pebble
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Palo Alto, California, United States
* Designed and implemented award-winning watch applications using internal SDK tools
* Provided feedback and testing for Pebble Software Development Kit (SDK) pre-release builds
* Edited verbiage and produced examples/clarification for Pebble SDK documentation

### Ground Mission Supervisor @ United States Air Force
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Hampton Roads, Virginia Metropolitan Area
* Led 15-40 personnel distributed worldwide to satisfy nightly national intelligence collection objectives
* Ensured safety of flight for pilots of U-2 Dragon Lady aircraft and RQ-4 Global Hawk UAV
* Provided key knowledge of tactics and intel analysis as subject-matter expert for U-2 ground station
* Held Top Secret/SCI clearance

### NK Air Defense Analyst @ United States Air Force
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Osan, Gyeonggi, South Korea
* Analyzed North Korean tactics, training, and procedures to build and update historical baseline
* Guided US and foreign analysts from 5 countries in authoring authoritative tactics reference guide
* Automated tracking of performance reports, immunizations, training, birthdays, etc for 50+ people
* Held Top Secret/SCI clearance


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/t-gibbons

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Last updated: 2026-04-10