# Tyler Phelan

> Software Engineer at Workgrounds

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/tylerphelan

https://github.com/tylerphelan

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Workgrounds
Jan 2022 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area
workgrounds.com

### Senior Member Of Technical Staff @ VMware
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States
• Cloud Native Buildpacks - Launched Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project as enterprise alternative to Dockerfiles for containerization of applications in production. Designed buildpacks – tools executing source-to-image builds at scale following language-specific conventions.
• Tanzu Build Service/kpack - Developed and released declarative kubernetes-native container build platform (Tanzu Build Service) and underlying open source project (kpack) leveraging Cloud Native Buildpacks. Built out platform to automate security and governance standards for applications at enterprise scale generating $8 million in revenue in the first year.

### Member Of Technical Staff 3 (via Pivotal Software acquisition) @ VMware
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York, United States
• Credhub - Added password and certificate rotation capabilities to Tanzu Application Service (previously named PCF) credential management service.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Pivotal Software, Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York, United States
• PCF Telemetry - Internal platform telemetry system leveraging FluentBit and Google BigQuery. Added data-filtering and increased uptime by applying message queuing with Google PubSub.

### Software Engineer @ Pivotal Software, Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | New York, New York, United States
• Team Anchor - Lead 8 engineers on projects for Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Pivotal’s flagshipPlatform-as-a-Service product.  Included interviewing and onboarding responsibilities
• Cloud Native Buildpacks - Launched Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project as enterprise alternative to Dockerfiles. Designed tools to create Open Container Initiative images in distributed environments leveraging Docker Registry API v2
• Pivotal Cloud Foundry Buildpacks - Containerization of applications in production on PCF, supporting various languages and frameworks including Ruby, Node.JS, .NET Core, Go. Implemented new Buildpack interface with Go increasing composability and adoption.
• Platform application image - Created automation pipeline for Linux images to report and patch CVEs enabling platform compliance and security using Docker and Concourse CI.
• Platform migration - Oversaw migration of Ubuntu base images across PCF platforms running on hundreds of foundations each running upwards of thousands of applications using Bosh VM management.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Pivotal Software, Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco, California, United States
• Served on the data visualization team contributing to Pivotal UI and utilizing Pivotal Tracker for Agile project management
• Created a graphical web service with Node and React for Cloud Foundry users to monitor traffic to their deployed apps

### Software Developer, Corp IT @ Students of Georgetown, Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Washington, District of Columbia, United States
• Collaborate with small Agile development team utilizing JIRA for project management and Git for version control
• Developed web interface with access control scheme to simplify $1,000 per month in expense reimbursement
• Added registration features to “Classy”, a companion Georgetown course selection tool reaching 14,000 unique users
• Built website for company music festival receiving 5,000 page sessions and 650 tickets purchased online
• Designed and implemented RESTful API for internal operations data queries for use on frontend website and mobile app
• Designed JavaScript program automating work request responses improving emergency resolution efficiency

### General Manager, More Uncommon Grounds @ Students of Georgetown, Inc.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Washington, District of Columbia, United States
• Oversee five person team managing coffee shop with 30 employees and over $400,000 in annual revenue
• Implement POS system analytics to make improved purchasing decisions–revenue up 22% from previous year
• Directed store expansion by introducing new vendors and products to better suit customer base—increased traffic 5% from previous year despite company-wide price increases
• Developed store inventory database to improve storage and product availability
• Established institutional memory by compiling relevant files of previous management into an organized directory system

### Undergraduate Research Assistant, Georgetown Department of Physics @ Georgetown University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Georgetown University
• Worked in computational physics lab, 30 hours per week, integrating disciplines of computer science and physics
• Used C++ to format data for use in open source program Quantum Espresso to model atomic lattice structures
• Wrote Linux shell scripts to automate use of numerical differential equation algorithms for physics applications


## Education
### Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Physics
Georgetown College, Georgetown University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tyler-phelan-97817785

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Last updated: 2026-03-23