Tyler Burdsall from the United States, has been nominated in the Software Development category for an award as Hacker Noon’s “Contributor of the Year” in Python! He is a software developer at AWS Elemental, who loves video games, likes playing music, but doesn’t like seafood? Let’s find out why below!

1. Which 2020 Noonie have you been nominated for?

Hacker Noon Contributor of the Year - PYTHON

2. Tell us a bit about yourself.

I’m a software developer at AWS Elemental working on live video technologies. I live in Oregon and I love exploring the Pacific Northwest with my wife. It’s a lot of fun going on hikes, discovering new places, and trying new foods. Like many developers, I also love video games, playing music, cooking, and seeing new tech to work on!

3. Tell us about the things you make / write / manage / build.

Professionally I work on MediaStore at AWS Elemental. it’s a low-latency, strongly-consistent origin for livestream workflows based in the cloud. MediaStore has been used for a lot of big sports events, such as the Super Bowl in 2020 and 2019. When I’m not working, I typically tinker around with new technologies at home, mostly writing my projects in Kotlin, Python, Swift, or C.

4. What are you most excited about right now?

I’m super excited to see the development of Apple’s ARM silicon chips in their laptops. I think ARM offers a lot of performance while still being energy efficient, so it will be really cool to see how this influences both the software and hardware markets in the next 5 years.

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