Tyler Brazier
tyler@brazier.us
github.com/tylerbrazier
Education
Masters of Computer Science
NDSU 2012-2014
GPA 3.89
Bachelors of Software Engineering
UMN Crookston 2008-2011
GPA 3.73
Volunteer Work / Personal
Contributions to open source projects
Node.js
Git
Kubernetes
Apache CXF
Syncthing
Youth With A Mission (YWAM)
2021-2024
Staffed three
Discipleship Training Schools
mentoring young adults.
Led teams of 9-14 students on
missions
to Panama, Thailand, and South Asia.
Medical missions
in Papua New Guinea and
water drilling
in Solomon Islands.
Led teams of 3-4 doing maintenance and grounds work.
Personal projects
Linux enthusiast; maintain my own cloud VPS.
Enjoy building/playing with software in my spare time; most is on
Github
.
Work Experience
Voxtelesys
2019-2021
Led team of 5-6 on a product rebuild from Rails to Express/Vue.
Set up Docker/Kubernetes cluster and CI/CD using Gitlab runners.
CoSchedule
2017-2018
Backend and frontend work in Ember, Express, and
Cordova
(mobile). Deployed on Heroku backed by PostgreSQL.
Intelligent InSites
2014-2017
Worked on core
RTLS
platform using XML+JSON REST APIs written in Java and Ruby, backed by MS SQL Server, Elasticsearch,
Antlr
,
Kafka
, and
RabbitMQ
.
North Dakota State University
2012-2014
Taught MS Office courses to 90+ students as part of graduate assistantship.
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Internship 2010-2012
Designed and built software for quality assurance and inventory management for the
Minnesota neutrino detector
used in the
NOvA experiment
.
University of Minnesota, Crookston
2009-2011
Tutored Programming I & II, C#, and Web Development courses.
Built and programmed
CO2 collection machine
for greenhouse gas experiments.
Prepared 3-day curriculum and instructed Lego robotics camp for elementary students.
Central Boiler
2005-2013, 2025
Started as a teenager in the machine shop, then into shipping & receiving, then into IT, then into R&D doing embedded development on various chipsets.