Howard Tyson
Head of Engineering at Lithic · Philadelphia
Hi, I'm Howard! I'm an engineering leader, a runner, and still very much a hands-on engineer. I love hard technical problems and interesting people problems, and the best work I've done has always been a mix of both.
For the last four years I've been building card-issuing infrastructure at Lithic, where I lead engineering, infrastructure, security, IT, and support engineering. Before that I led engineering at Quil Health and Comcast Connected Health, co-founded the CI platform Probo.CI as its CTO, and spent years deep in open source, including chairing the Drupal Technical Working Group.
What I care about
- Teams where every engineer can ship to production safely, every day
- Migrating live systems with zero downtime, and proving they're still correct afterward
- Growing engineers into great managers (and managers into great leaders)
- Rust, TypeScript, infrastructure as code, and payments plumbing all the way down to the network