Resumé

Engineering and design leader with two decades of experience building products and helping people enjoy their work.

me@tylergaw.com • github.com/tylergaw

Experience

  1. August 2025 - Present

    Founder

    Latchbolt

  2. November 2023 - July 2025

    Founding Engineer

    Summer

  3. February 2021 – April 2023

    Director of Engineering

    Rokt

  4. May 2020 – January 2021

    Lead Engineer and Designer (contract)

    ideas42 Ventures

  5. June 2018 – May 2020

    Lead Front-end Engineer and Design Lead

    StreetCred

  6. February 2017 – June 2018

    Co-Founder / Designer / Front-end Engineer

    Limbo

  7. September 2014 – September 2017

    Senior Software Engineer

    The Groundwork

  8. March 2014 – September 2014

    Designer & Engineer

    Longform (freelance)

  9. November 2011 – February 2014

    Product & Design Lead

    Readability (at Arc90)

  10. September 2008 – February 2014

    Designer & Engineer

    Arc90

  11. September 2007 – September 2008

    Designer & Engineer

    Freelance

  12. September 2006 – September 2007

    Web Designer

    Digi Craft Productions

Things I Know and Do

An ever-growing list of buzzwords and phrases.

  • Design of all variety; product, UX, UI, graphic, and more qualifiers
  • Writing
  • Producing and using pattern libraries and design systems
  • People leadership
  • Hiring
  • Figuring things out
  • Asking hard questions
  • Meticulous project documentation
  • User stories
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Old timey JavaScript
  • New-fangled JavaScript
  • Sass
  • PostCSS
  • Svelte
  • React
  • React Native
  • Redux
  • Webpack
  • Rollup.JS
  • Gulp
  • So many JS build tools
  • Python
  • Flask
  • Django
  • Ruby on Rails
  • PHP
  • Working with RESTful and GraphQL APIs
  • CI tools; Travis, Circle, Buildkite, GitHub Actions

Education

November 2004 - September 2006

Bachelor of Science in Digital Arts and Design

Full Sail University, Orlando Florida