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Tyler Samples

Portland, OR | tysamples.com

Summary

Software Engineer excited about performance, observability, and automation with years of expertise specializing in datastores, platforms, and process optimization.

I work on application and DevOps teams to improve performance, enable scalability, and design solutions for new feature development. I employ data-driven development methodologies focusing on observability and sturdy operations to make informed decisions to drive performance.

Skill Area	Tools/Technologies
Cloud Platforms	Azure, Google Cloud Platform
Programming Languages	C#, PowerShell, SQL, bash
Database Technologies	Azure SQL Database, Elasticsearch, Cosmos
CI/CD	Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Azure Data Factory
Automation	Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker
Business Intelligence	Database Design, ETL, FQHC UDS Reporting

Experience

Database Engineer @ Red Rover

2025 - Present

Optimized database performance by analyzing APM telemetry and query execution plans, resolving high-friction resource contention to reduce latency and infrastructure overhead.
Architected and implemented a foundational Data Warehouse to consolidate operational metrics across disparate systems, establishing automated ETL pipelines for unified business intelligence.
Automated database schema migration and version control pipelines, reducing manual release friction and ensuring safe, repeatable deployments.
Designed database telemetry dashboards and proactive alerts to identify query regressions, deadlock incidents, and resource exhaustion before they impacted users.
Collaborated with product engineers to design highly performant schemas, indexing strategies, and caching patterns for new feature launches.

Senior DevOps Engineer II @ Degreed

2025 - 2025

Completed project to separate front-end and back-end monolithic repository to allow for modular deployment and code consolidation; this included migrating many build, test, and release workflows.
Migrated several dozen workflows to provider-managed pools, resulting in the elimination of technical debt, and a 50% reduction in both cost and runtime for most workflows.
Upgraded more than a dozen Azure PostgreSQL servers to a compliant platform, augmenting performance, cost, and library availability.

Senior Software Engineer II @ Degreed

2024 – 2025

Automated Elasticsearch upgrade reindexing process, saving hundreds of hours of developer time and creating a robust and consistent, highly logged routine.
Prototyped a Semantic Search implementation to explore Machine Learning features for improved Categorical Search results.
Led systems integration project using Azure Event Hub, enabling a robust integration between two systems and allowing the sales teams to upsell both products.
Managed technical incident response to address systems outages, performance degradations, and other urgent business-critical needs.
Reviewed APM data for performance constraints and implemented performance-tuning improvements to improve user experience and reduce business costs.
Comprehensively developed new REST endpoints through MVC stack to integrate new system data with OAuth security for systems integration.
Developed new .NET features in web applications.

Database Engineer @ American Health Technology Group

2022 – 2024

Led recurring performance monitoring initiative to highlight opportunities to improve reliability and lower costs.
Enabled observability tooling to provide insightful data to inform developers and management.
Wrote DevOps processes to reduce friction in local development and empower developers to work more easily.
Wrote DevOps pipelines to automate database deploy and other recurring functions.
Consulted on database design and changes for application teams.

Senior Software Engineer @ Degreed

2019 – 2022

Developed new features and bug fixes using T-SQL, Elasticsearch, and C#.
Used APM observability to identify potential performance improvements and data integrity improvements.
Built and maintained a database deployment pipeline, converting from a fully manual process.
Identified frequently called queries and implemented Redis caching to reduce unnecessary database calls, resulting in a 30% reduction in queries on the largest Production DB.
Designed, implemented, and documented a large-scale data-driven data migration process to migrate clients between data centers using Azure Data Factory.

Escalation Engineer @ Degreed

2018 – 2019

Provided top-tier, live Production support for Azure SQL Database and Elasticsearch.
Diagnosed and debugged production issues and bugs.

Business Intelligence Analyst @ OCHIN

2013 – 2018

Fostered a technical learning environment as the technical lead; hosted a weekly learning session to assist a large team to overcome technical limitations in query design as well as tracing data through ETL processes from operational, analytical, and data warehouse databases.
Performed extensive query optimization solutions for big data environment.
Built automated bi-directional data extracts utilizing Microsoft framework (SQL Agent Jobs, SSIS packages).
Built and supported federal Clinical Quality Measures platform reporting for 80 organizations, building a high-transparency data reporting platform to ensure customer confidence.

Education

BS Business Information Systems | Oregon State University
2006 – 2011

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