Summary
Tyler Larson is a senior software and security engineer with over 20 years of experience designing, building, and hardening complex systems, most recently spending eight years at Google improving Google Cloud for high-security workloads. He thrives on steep learning curves and is the go-to engineer for problems others avoid, combining hands-on coding with high-level architecture, security analysis, and team leadership. Tyler has grown teams, defined engineering norms and quality standards at scale, and taught extensively to raise org-wide capability. His background spans low-latency trading infrastructure to cloud security, giving him a rare view of both performance-critical systems and adversarial failure modes. An active community contributor, he’s consistently ranked among the top security contributors on Security.StackExchange and top 1% on StackOverflow, reflecting deep practical knowledge and a habit of finding subtle edge cases. Now based in the Greater Seattle area, he’s open to full-time roles after a period of high-impact contract work.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer