Open to opportunities

Tyler Wahl

@tylerwahl2

Message

Lead software engineer focused on cloud-native payments, cost optimization, and scalable systems.

United States

Message

What I'm looking for

I seek roles where I can lead cloud migrations, reduce operating costs, mentor engineers, and build scalable, observable payment and analytics systems with strong automation and governance.

I am a Lead Software Engineer with deep experience building cloud-native payments and analytics platforms, driving cost optimization and operational excellence. At Capital One I shipped visibility and optimization tooling that cut untagged spend 58% and reduced compute spend for pilots by up to 23% while improving forecasting and governance.

I mentor distributed teams, lead migrations of critical payments workloads to AWS with zero customer downtime, and deliver production-ready services across backend, data, and observability stacks. I prioritize pragmatic automation, clear runbooks, and measurable business impact while fostering cross-functional collaboration.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Lead Software Engineer

Capital One

Jan 2022 - Jul 2025 (3 years 6 months)

Built cost-visibility and allocation dashboards and optimization tooling that reduced untagged spend by 58% and cut Snowflake compute spend for pilots, and launched cross-platform budgeting and forecasting that lowered month-end variance by 17%.

Cost Optimization Snowflake AWS Data Engineering Forecasting Automation)Java Kotlin Distributed Systems Mentoring Automation

Software Engineer

Capital One

Jul 2018 - Jan 2022 (3 years 6 months)

Migrated card authorization and debit processing to AWS and rebuilt core payments services to improve authorization speed and reliability while tuning routing and risk checks to increase approvals and reduce false declines.

Payments AWS Java Kotlin Observability Reliability Engineering Authorization Systems

Software Engineer Intern

AT&T

Jun 2017 - Aug 2017 (2 months)

Built a data-driven web dashboard for order tracking and created an application to store conversational data for an AI chatbot during a 3-month coding challenge.

Web Development Data Visualization JavaScript Dashboarding Prototyping UX