Engineering leadershipSoftware architectureApplied AI

I turn ambiguous business problemsinto systemsteams can trust.

I’m Tyler Konesky, an engineering leader and hands-on software architect. I connect business context, architecture, and execution to build secure production systems—and I’m especially focused on helping teams adopt AI in useful, governed, measurable ways.

Open to engineering leadership, software architecture, and senior applied-AI engineering roles; fully remote within the United States or hybrid/on-site in Utah.
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How I create leverage

UnderstandFrame the business problem, constraints, and stakes
ArchitectMake boundaries, risks, and tradeoffs explicit
DeliverEnable accountable execution and learn from production

Leadership range without losing technical depth.

LeadTeams, decisions, and delivery systems
ArchitectSecure, evolvable production platforms
BuildSoftware, cloud, and applied AI

Where I add value

One professional identity. Two complementary paths.

My broadest impact comes from connecting business context, system design, and engineering execution. That range can serve a team through hands-on leadership or senior architecture and applied-AI work.

Engineering leadership

Create clarity, accountability, and durable delivery.

I lead close enough to the system to make sound technical decisions, while giving engineers the context, guardrails, and room they need to learn and own their work.

  • Technical strategy
  • Team systems
  • Architecture
  • Delivery
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Senior engineering and applied AI

See the whole system—and stay hands-on enough to ship it.

I design and build across APIs, data, cloud infrastructure, frontend systems, security, testing, and practical AI. My advantage is understanding how those parts behave together over the full software lifecycle.

  • Software architecture
  • Backend systems
  • Cloud
  • Applied AI
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Selected work

Work explained through problems, decisions, and outcomes.

These case studies show how I combine product understanding, architecture, implementation, leadership, and production ownership.

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Flagship client platform

Multi-tenant omnichannel customer service platform

A client-owned platform that consolidates email, SMS, website chat, and phone workflows across multiple brands, with skill-based agent permissions and reviewable AI assistance.

  • Laravel
  • PHP
  • Node.js
  • Next.js
  • React
  • PostgreSQL
  • WebSockets
  • AWS
  • Mailgun
  • SendGrid
  • Twilio
  • 3CX
  • OpenAI
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Distributed platform

StudioPlayer distributed content and device platform

A multi-tenant web and edge-device platform that lets organizations remotely schedule and manage media across distributed screens, including offline playback and event-driven casino installations.

  • React
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • REST
  • WebSockets
  • Python
  • Linux
  • Docker
  • AWS
  • MySQL
  • Snowflake
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Applied AI · Internal deployment

Agentic engineering platform

A deployed internal system that coordinates bounded agents for greenfield builds, bug fixes, feature work, and production-readiness review while keeping high-risk actions behind human approval.

  • Node.js
  • Claude Code
  • Agent skills
  • GitHub
  • Playwright
  • Gitleaks
  • WSL
  • Human-in-the-loop
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Career narrative

A career defined by earned trust and increasing scope.

I began in customer-facing operations, discovered software by automating a forecasting problem, developed financial expertise, and then moved deliberately into engineering. Across those chapters, the recurring pattern has been learning quickly, solving hard problems, and being trusted to lead.

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Current chapter · 2020–present

From full-stack engineer to CTO

At Red7Systems, I progressed from hands-on product engineering to senior backend ownership and then CTO, while remaining close to code, architecture, clients, and delivery.View career chapter

Business foundation · 2004–2016

Business, customer, markets, and leadership foundations

Before software became my profession, I led frontline teams, built a workforce forecasting system, and helped develop an expert trading education program for high-net-worth self-directed investors.View career chapter

First systems breakthrough

Dialogue-Marketing

Progressed from customer service agent through team leadership and management into intraday workforce analytics, where software first became a practical tool for solving an expensive operating problem.View career chapter

Operating principles

How I think about technical leadership.

Strong engineering systems make good decisions easier, surface risk early, and help people grow without losing accountability.

Architecture should create clarity.

I establish the important boundaries, constraints, and non-negotiables early, then leave room for engineers to make implementation decisions that support the larger design.

Risk determines the release bar.

Security, authentication, and significant functional failures block a release. Known minor defects can ship under time pressure when they are documented, communicated, and backed by a credible resolution plan.

Accountability and psychological safety reinforce each other.

I want engineers to ask questions, challenge a decision, and make responsible mistakes. I also expect them to own the outcome, learn from it, and follow through.

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