Tyrone Wilson
Head Of Engineering at Solid Insight
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolTyrone Wilson is a seasoned engineering leader and entrepreneur with 12 years of experience building and scaling enterprise-grade systems from Cape Town. As Head of Engineering at TourAxis and Co-founder & CTO of Solid Insight, he blends hands-on development in Golang, gRPC, Docker and Kubernetes with strategic leadership to deliver cost-effective, production-ready platforms. His background spans startup CTO roles and principal engineering positions where he drove observability, messaging and API-driven architectures using Linkerd, ELK and RabbitMQ. Trained as an electrical engineer at the University of Cape Town, Tyrone brings systems-thinking from hardware and building services into software design, often favoring resilient, cloud-native stacks and pragmatic delivery. He excels at translating client needs into technical roadmaps and is known for pairing deep technical ownership with clear stakeholder communication.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Elec. Eng.), Electrical Engineering, BSc (Elec. Eng.), Electrical Engineering at University of Cape TownA Levels, Mathematics, A Levels, Mathematics at Christian Brothers College (Bulawayo)
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Github Skills (76)
fabric10
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rails-app10
rabbitmq9
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Solid-Insight/grafana
Dec 2021 - Jul 2024
The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
visualizeobservabilitygrafanaprometheusmonitoring
tyronewilson/protractor-rails
Mar 2014 - Mar 2016
A Gem which helps you integrate Protractor into your rails app
Contributions:76 commits, 10 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 years
rails-app
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