# Tyler W. > Senior Software Engineer Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/tylerw Senior software engineer with 6 years of experience as a full-stack, data, and platform engineer. Skilled in designing, building, and deploying mission-critical applications and robust data pipelines. Expertise in optimizing CI/CD pipelines, creating custom monitoring and alerting systems, and building tools to support cross-functional teams in dynamic environments. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Autodesk Jan 2022 – Present - Designed and implemented data pipelines to extract, transform, and load productivity metrics into dashboards and reports, enhancing data-driven decision-making. - Helped build an internal web platform that enables teams to discover and reuse shared libraries and components across the company, improving development efficiency and code standardization. - Contributed to a cross-team shared library of AWS developer tools. - Built microservices and a Slack bot to monitor changes to OpenAPI files on Stoplight and send out notifications. - Mentored an intern, suggesting best practices, overseeing internship projects, and supporting presentation preparation. ### Software Engineer @ Best Buy Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Remote - Designed and implemented data pipelines on Google Cloud Platform. - Developed an extensible data pipeline monitoring and alerting system, using GCP Dataflow and Cloud Monitoring. - Built a data pipeline to stream user device information from bestbuy.com into GCP BigQuery and Adobe Experience Platform. - Mentored junior developers, suggesting best practices, coding conventions, and development tools to improve productivity. - Contractor through Brooksource. ### Software Engineer @ Kohl's Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Remote - Designed and implemented a microservices ecosystem to handle all inventory requests from kohls.com. - Built mission-critical APIs, processing thousands of inventory requests per second with an average response time of less than 50ms. - Collaborated with Hazelcast to develop a custom caching mechanism to prevent hot key issues during traffic spikes. - Mentored junior developers, discussing system design best practices and suggesting learning paths. ### Software Engineer @ Northern Trust Corporation Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Chicago, Illinois, United States - Designed and implemented a web app to allow financial advisors to interact with client financial reports. - Collaborated with UI/UX Designers to refactor an enterprise React component library, to achieve a better user experience. - Revamped my team's testing methodology to resolve issues caused by newer versions of React. - Contractor through Signature Consultants. ### Software Engineer @ Allstate Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Northbrook, Illinois - Designed and implemented a microservices ecosystem to process credit card, Zelle, and ACH payments. - Collaborated with banks and credit card companies to develop secure and fault-tolerate payments APIs. - Built a React widget to provide a uniform payment experience across all of Allstate's websites. - Consultant through Graph Up, Inc. ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tylerw123 --- Source: https://flows.cv/tylerw JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/tylerw/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22