Tyler has been an open source developer for over 14 years. Originally getting his start in the FreeBSD project, he then worked with the Python, Ruby and Puppet communities. Most of his open source work has been within the Jenkins project, where he helped with advocacy, governance and community infrastructure. Tyler was a board member for the Jenkins project and helped initiate the Continuous Delivery Foundation.

Recently his focus has been in the Delta Lake and Rust communities, exploring potential use cases for Rust in high concurrency data processing and ingestion.