Tyler Graff

tagraff@gmail.com | linkedin.com/in/tagraff | Atlanta, GA, USA

Summary

Versatile engineering leader and contributor with 15+ years of experience architecting and developing high-performance software and analytics products. 7+ years of customer-facing exerience. Specialized in technical product strategy, software strategy, software architecture, and Linux/POSIX environments.

Recent Professional Experience

MetroStar Systems, LLC
Technical Team Leader : January 2024 - Present

• Leading team to adapt an open-source IaC K8s/EKS-based data analytics platform to support US DoD AI/ML test and evaluation workflows
• Successfully led effort to enhance open-source platform to deploy into an air-gapped network and provide DoD IL5 processing capabilities.

Voreas Laboratories Inc
Engineering Director : February 2018 - February 2023

• Led engineering team delivering custom big-data analytics capabilities to multiple early-adopter customers on AWS, Azure, and on-prem deployments.
• Won multiple customer renewals by defining and delivering 10+ targeted capabilities to external customers which increased performance and coverage by orders of magnitude over existing solutions.
• Owned internal custom big-data analytics platform technical roadmap and architecture. Participated in proposal blue, red, and gold teams.

Engineering Manager : February 2018 - January 2020

• Led engineering team to develop bespoke high-performance distributed key-value database and analytics platform in C, with Ruby and Python API.
• Developed on networking libraries, algorithms, memory-mapped storage mechanisms, distributed computing design patterns, custom ETL pipelines, and customer-facing APIs.
• Acted as primary technical contact and SRE for largest customer deployment.

Pindrop Security Inc, Atlanta, GA
Engineering Manager : July 2016 - February 2018

• Founded and led 6-FTE team to develop internal tooling in C/C++, Ruby, Python, and Go, for flagship fraud-detection platform.
• Architected and led execution of build-system redesign to reduce release risk by increase performance from quarterly to daily.
• Worked with CEO and Sales to automate customer-facing demo systems, decreasing demo lead-time from days to hours.

Damballa Inc, Atlanta, GA
Staff Engineer : February 2014 - June 2016

• Engineering specialist leading team of 3 to increase flagship cybersecurity product traffic inspection capability from 1Gbps to 10Gbps.
• Collaborated with engineering management to set requirements custom Linux kernel driver tightly coupled to existing custom packet inspection architecture.
• 10Gbps capability achieved and released on-time, resulting in hardware footprint reduction and additional customer renewals.

Education

MS Electrical Engineering University of Colorado : August 2009
BS Electrical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology : December 2006

Certifications, Licenses, Awards

• CompTIA Security+ DWVMGK4Z3EE4179G : May 2024
• FCC Amateur Operator License AC0QR : May 2016
• US Patent US8111063B2 : February 2012