Tyler French
Software Engineer at buildbuddy-io
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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RockstarTyler French is a Software Engineer based in New York with four years of experience, currently contributing to Uber’s Go Developer Experience team. He specializes in backend and build engineering, focusing on improving Go tooling and developer workflows for large codebases. As an open-source contributor to bazel-gazelle, he implemented label parsing, external repository resolution, and repo macro support while fixing deduplication and sorting issues that make Bazel build generation more reliable. His work emphasizes reproducible builds and reducing dependency friction—small behind-the-scenes improvements that prevent subtle build breakages and speed developer iteration.
5 years of coding experience
Github Skills (6)
starlark10
go10
bazel10
build-automation10
go-modules8
go-module8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bazel-contrib/bazel-gazelle
Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
Gazelle is a Bazel build file generator for Bazel projects. It natively supports Go and protobuf, and it may be extended to support new languages and custom rule sets.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Build Engineer
Back-end Developer & Build EngineerContributions:8 releases, 115 reviews, 11 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily contributed to the core functionality of Gazelle, focusing on parsing labels and resolving external references within the Bazel build system. They implemented features to handle repository macros, allowing for more flexible loading of dependencies. Additionally, they improved the build process by handling duplicate definitions and ensuring proper sorting of rules and loads within macro files. The user also worked on fixing bugs and optimizing the build configuration generation.
golangbazel-rulesbazelprotobufextended
tyler-french/bazel-gazelle
Mar 2021 - Mar 2025
Gazelle is a Bazel build file generator for Bazel projects. It natively supports Go and protobuf, and it may be extended to support new languages and custom rule sets.
Contributions:4 reviews, 8 PRs, 358 pushes in 4 years 1 month
golangbazel-rulesbazelprotobufextended
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