Tyler Eveland
IT Systems, Security & Automation · Public-Sector Insider
Summary
For two years I've been the person a county government hands its hardest problems to. I run our state security audits end to end — the audit, the remediation, and the report the state receives — and this year remediated the Health Department's entire device fleet for a HIPAA audit. In the same role I replaced vendor software with systems I built myself: a jail bed-audit system, an officer daily-notes app, a network dashboard, RAG search over county data, and a Db2-to-SQL records migration ahead of an RMS/CAD cutover. Twenty-plus years in tech, a decade of it running my own IT business, three years teaching — which is exactly why I'm good at making hard systems clear to the people who have to use them.
Experience
Hardware Administrator & Project Manager · Adams County, IL (Government)
2024 – Present- The county's go-to for state security audits: I run the audits, do the remediation, and write the reports the state receives. In July 2026 that meant remediating the Health Department's entire device fleet in response to a HIPAA audit report.
- Single technical point of contact for departments across the county — the Sheriff's office, Probation, the Health Department, the County Clerk, Juvenile Detention — from a broken machine to a vendor escalation to a frustrated non-technical user.
- In two years, replaced paid or broken software with custom tools I built myself, retiring vendor contracts across county departments.
- Built a digital sign-in / sign-out board for the Probation and Health departments, retiring a third-party contract that cost thousands per year.
- Built a jail bed auditing system for the Adams County Jail and a Daily Notes system for the Sheriff's Department.
- Created a network dashboard for the Network Administrator — built to his spec, integrating multiple APIs into one live view — and separately diagnosed and resolved a county-wide network issue using PowerShell traffic analysis.
- Built a RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) system over the county's internal data for semantic search and Q&A.
- Migrated the county's entire IBM Db2 records database to SQL ahead of an RMS/CAD transfer of service, covering the gap when no vendor backup would be ready before cutover.
- Created a one-step installer for the county's end-of-support RMS that cut installation on officers' in-vehicle terminals from multiple hours to minutes, and engineered a bypass that kept Probation and Juvenile Detention's monitoring software running after a Windows 11 upgrade the vendor said it wouldn't survive.
- Built a suite of office automations now in daily use: automated payment-logging for the County Clerk, file-integrity checks that catch silent corruption, and daily CISA security-alert emails for staff.
- Automated the employee lifecycle: new-hire, termination, and promotion changes propagate through Active Directory and Microsoft 365 groups without manual steps.
- Replaced a commercial digital-signage subscription with a self-hosted Raspberry Pi system (courtboard), and built the county's FOIA video-evidence redaction pipeline using YOLO computer-vision models to auto-redact faces and plates.
Independent client work — side project, evenings & weekends · Eveland Digital
2026 – present- Design and build AI-assisted websites and a custom CRM for local home-service contractors — solo, full-stack in Next.js/TypeScript, from quoting and proposals to online booking and lead follow-up. A side project I run outside my day job.
AI Training Contractor & Independent Software Developer · Outlier & contract clients
2023 – 2025- Contracted with Outlier training and evaluating large language models — creating, reviewing, and ranking code and reasoning tasks used to improve frontier AI systems.
- Delivered independent software, automation, and tooling projects for clients on contract.
Coding Teacher · Griggsville-Perry High School
2022 – 2023- Taught coding and computer science to high-school students, building curriculum and projects from the ground up.
Coding Teacher · Liberty Jr. High & High School
2019 – 2021- Taught coding to junior-high and high-school students — three years across two districts of making hard technical concepts legible to true beginners, the same communication skill I bring to technical writing and cross-functional engineering work.
Owner & Technician · Independent IT business
2010 – 2020- Ran my own local IT business for a decade — five years full-time, ten counting freelance: repairs, networking, builds, and consulting for area homes and small businesses.
- Every part of the operation was mine: finding clients, scoping work, doing the work, and standing behind it.
QA Analyst · PIGSquad (Portland Indie Game Squad)
2017- QA for indie game projects including the July Performance Jam and Wave Trainer: playtested builds, wrote reproduction steps, and filed bug reports developers could act on without a follow-up question.
Webmaster & Web Designer · Benchmark Liquors
2014 – 2016- Designed, built, and maintained the store's website and web presence.
Intern — The Screen Savers · G4 (TechTV)
2004 – 2005- Intern on the definitive tech-TV show of its era.
IT Technician · DotCom — Pittsfield, IL
2001- First IT job, as a high schooler: installing the Pittsfield / Pike County area's first cable modems.
Selected projects
Audrey · ★24 — Persistent memory & continuity engine for AI agents.
courtboard — Self-hosted courthouse signage that replaced a paid SaaS.
logic2ableton · ★35 — The only tool that converts Logic Pro projects into Ableton Live sets.
NewAmp · ★7 — A modern, Winamp-inspired desktop music player.
Skills
Languages: Python, TypeScript / JavaScript, Go, SQL, Bash
Web & app: Next.js / React, Node.js, Electron, Tailwind CSS, Vercel
AI / agents: LLM application engineering, Prompt engineering, Model fine-tuning & evaluation (RLHF), MCP servers, Agent orchestration, Vector search / RAG
Systems: Binary reverse engineering, File-format decoding, Audio (MIDI / WAV / AIFF), Raspberry Pi deployments, CI/CD
Product: Full-stack delivery, CRM & automation, Technical writing, Founder / client delivery
Education
M.S., Computer Science (Software Engineering) — University of Illinois
B.A., English — Western Illinois University
Certifications: Microsoft 365 Administrator Certification, Claude Certified Architect (Anthropic), Google IT Automation with Python Professional Certificate, Google IT Support Professional Certificate