Tyler Lugger
- Software Architect
- Slow runner
- Jam enjoyer
- Happy father
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whoami
I'm not not Tyler. I am a staff+ engineer with experience in building reliable and scalable backend systems.
I spend most of my time working across Go and Rust services and infrastructure, with a recent focus in financial platforms where correctness really matters.
On the side, I like to build small utilities and silly automations that make me happy
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journal
A custom, self-hosted blog backed by my Obsidian vault. Posts live as markdown folders that sync to S3, and a Go service on a Raspberry Pi watches for changes via fsnotify and renders posts on-demand with in-memory HTML caching. Powers blog.tylerkno.ws; source on GitHub.
# blog/hello-world/index.md --- title: "Hello World" slug: hello-world published: true pubDate: 2026-05-12 --- An exercise in building a bespoke, artisanal, bug filled blog serving.
rockiscope
A Bluesky bot that posts the daily horoscope and game prediction for the Colorado Rockies. The Rockies are a Cancer (founded July 5, 1991), so the bot scrapes the daily Cancer horoscope and combines it with a weighted prediction model using team stats, pitcher matchups, and a dash of celestial influence. Built in Go and runs on a Raspberry Pi. See today's pick on the dashboard.
⚾ Rockies @ San Diego Padres 🕐 6:40 PM MDT at Petco Park 🪖 Ryan Feltner (4.32 ERA, 1-0) 📊 6-8 | vs SD: 0-2 | L2 🔮 A slight celestial nudge toward a Rockies defeat (63%)
— Rockiscope ♋ (@rockiscope.bsky.social) Apr 11, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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megagrep
A CLI tool that maintains a vector-search index of a codebase and exposes a single semantic search interface for AI coding agents. Built to cut token usage and help agents orient in unfamiliar code — finding where a feature lives, what already exists in a domain, and the right entry points before proposing changes.
facial recognition
Over the summer of my first internship, I integrated facial recognition into a distributed IoT platform. This led to a couple of applications including an interface-free coffee counter and a self-targeting dart gun!
desk plant automated-irrigation
To keep my desk plant from dying I automated its watering using a Raspberry Pi, hobby pump, and a soil moisture sensor. This project was featured on the front page of hackster.io.