Tyler Benfield

Tyler Benfield

Resume

Hi, I’m Tyler Benfield. My goal is to amplify my impact on the world by empowering engineers to do their best work.

I’m currently a software engineer at Truepill where I'm working to modernize healthcare. Outside of work, I have a few personal projects that experiment with new ideas and solve some challenges I've encountered. I also hike, work on cars, and play a few instruments.

I have a breadth of experience delivering web-based products from initial discovery to long-term maintenance. I'm passionate about helping teams achieve a mature software development lifecycle that encourages conscious iteration, low development friction, and no-nonsense troubleshooting.

Core Values

Empower Others

Empowering others takes many forms. It can be mentoring others, providing equipment, or removing blockers. Most importantly, it is about knowing when to let go and trust your team. Incredible accomplishments come from empowered people.

Humble Confidence

Be proud of what you know, but never lose sight of what you have yet to learn. Mentorship is not a one-way street. Encourage others to ask questions and challenge your opinions. Having the answer is good; empowering others to take the win is better.

Chart New Paths

Explore new ideas. Ask why. Don't settle for the status quo if you think a better way exists. Try it compare it, and, good or bad, learn from the results. Failure on one path may be the success of another.

Professional

Languages

As a polyglot and language enthusiast, I've become familiar with many languages. I believe familiarizing with a variety of languages across different domains also deepens our understanding of those we are most comfortable in.

  • Expert in JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, C#, and SQL
  • Familiarity in Go, Python, and Rust

Software and Technologies

I've had the privilege of working with a range of technologies throughout the stack. The list is too long to mention and I'm certainly not an expert at them all, but I am confident when discussing any of the below.

  • Databases: SQL Server and PostgreSQL
  • Frontend libraries: React
  • Backend frameworks: Next.js, Remix, ASP.NET, and GraphQL
  • Testing: Jest, React Testing Library, and MSTest
  • Hosting: Google Cloud Platform, Docker, Azure, Deno, and Netlify

Collaboration, Product, and Leadership

I believe that cross-functional, highly collaborative teams produce the highest quality software. Amazing things can happen when the team is unified and understands the value of the work they do.

  • Comfortable organizing and leading meetings across departments to ensure a cooperative culture.
  • Experience working through product designs and business requirements to conduct estimates, ROI discussions, resourcing, and roadmap planning.
  • Passion for supporting my team in their career journey through mentorship and tasks that prioritize technical growth.

Work Experience

Staff Software Engineer

Truepill - Remote
August 2021 - Present

Truepill allowed me to extend my technical leadership role to a new level. I concurrently provided oversight to four teams across multiple products totaling 40+ engineers. I architected greenfield systems, improved developer efficiency, and ensured our delivery teams met the timelines committed to our business. I was influential in designing a new, serverless cloud architecture that improved sustainability, monitoring, and observability. To support our hosted solutions, I implemented an SLO-based on-call approach that resulted in fewer than one incident per weekly rotation while maintaining our SLAs.

Senior Software Engineer

SentryOne (acquired by SolarWinds) - Charlotte, NC
September 2018 - August 2021

At SentryOne, I migrated the flagship SQL Sentry product into the web with SentryOne Portal (self-hosted) and SentryOne Monitor (SaaS). It was an exciting environment, full of complex technical challenges and brilliant engineers. Outside of typical coding responsibilities, I hosted a series of talks on React, TypeScript, and general web development for the engineering department.

Solutions Engineer

Standpoint Technologies - Huntersville, NC
May 2013 - August 2018

Standpoint Technologies was the launching point of my career out of college. It was a small, fast-paced environment where I was able to gain experience in all roles of software development, including requirements gathering, working with legacy systems, adopting new technologies, and monitoring production systems. I grew fast there, and I was fortunate to become the lead engineer and architect for JobPro, a SaaS business management product tailored to subcontractors.

Software Engineering Intern

Penske Racing - Mooresville, NC
May 2011 - January 2013

Penske Racing was my first chance to write code professionally. It perfectly combined two of my passions: software engineering and mechanical engineering. I built several in-house utilities, including mobile apps for trackside data collection, desktop apps for comparing 3D scans, and various utility libraries.

Education

M.S., Computer Science

Georgia Institute of Technology
Spring 2014 - Spring 2018

B.S., Mathematics / Computer Science

Wingate University
Fall 2009 - Spring 2013

Projects

Abundantia

Abundantia is an app I built for visualizing different loan payment scenarios and planning my mortgage. I found it valuable and thought others could benefit from it as well. Abundantia tends to be my go-to app for trying new technologies, but it is currently written in TypeScript with React and hosted in Firebase.

tylerbenfield.me/projects/abundantia