Tyler Hobbs
Director, IT Business Applications
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTyler Hobbs is a seasoned software product leader with 15 years of experience driving cross-functional strategies and delivering measurable business impact from Austin, Texas. As a director-level leader he blends hands-on engineering chops with product management discipline to build scalable, reusable solutions, reduce OPEX, and enable distributed teams via agile program management. His background includes leading complex CPQ and ordering transformations at NI and recent IT product leadership at CyrusOne and Giving Home Health Care. A longtime open-source contributor and Apache Cassandra committer, he has deep expertise in distributed databases and backend tooling—work that surfaces in contributions to DataStax’s Python driver and Cassandra tooling. He’s comfortable shifting between technical detail and executive strategy, and he intentionally fosters continuous discovery and customer connection to uncover high-impact opportunities.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of Texas at San Antonio
Github Skills (30)
ssl10
python10
cassandra10
kerberos10
back-end-development10
nosql10
protocol-buffers10
testing10
command-line-interface10
data-serialization10
java10
serialization10
javas10
api10
command-line10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
pycassa/pycassa
Aug 2010 - Jan 2017
Python Thrift driver for Apache Cassandra
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:714 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily contributed to the pycassa library, a Python client for Apache Cassandra. Their commits focused on implementing features, such as support for atomic batches and integrating key-value store operations (e.g., get, remove) into the library. Additionally, the user made general documentation improvements and fixes to the code for improved maintainability. The user also introduced the ability to specify custom types.
cassandradriverpythonthrift
twissandra/twissandra
Dec 2010 - Nov 2019
Twissandra is an example project, created to learn and demonstrate how to use Cassandra. Running the project will present a website that has similar functionality to Twitter.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 9 years
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily focused on backend development, specifically related to database interaction and application logic. They updated the codebase to be compatible with newer versions of the pycassa library, including fixing key lookups and connection handling. They also refactored and optimized code, including the use of native protocol drivers and multi-get results ordering, to improve performance. The user also made modifications to the data model, updating the schema and the code utilizing it.
cassandratwitter
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