Resume

Engineering and design leader with nearly two decades of experience building products and nurturing teams.

me@tylergaw.com • github.com/tylergaw

Experience

  1. November 2023 - Present

    Principal Front-end Engineer

    Summer

    • Building something

  2. February 2021 – April 2023

    Director of Engineering

    Rokt

    • Built a work culture that attracts talent and kept long term team members from leaving
    • Managed engineers and engineering managers across teams responsible for core product development and internal experimentation platform
    • Helped grow the NYC engineer team from 3 to ~60
    • Led the Product Design team of 9 split between New York and Sydney

  3. May 2020 – January 2021

    Lead Engineer and Designer (contract)

    ideas42 Ventures

    • Built a technology and design foundation for the budding venture studio

  4. June 2018 – May 2020

    Lead Front-end Engineer and Design Lead

    StreetCred

    • Pitched, nurtured and executed product features to help grow and support our community of players
    • Led the design and development of our iOS/Android application built in React Native
    • Established high quality design and engineering best practices to grow our team
    • StreetCred was acquired by Snap in 2020

  5. February 2017 – June 2018

    Co-Founder / Designer / Front-end Engineer

    Limbo

    • Partnered on product vision, concept, strategy, and business model
    • Designed and built a slow-on-purpose profile form to help candidates take their time and think in-depth about their ideal work
    • Built an intentionally minimal, progressively-enhanced JS scaffold using Gulp, Rollup.JS, and ES2015
    • Produced a pattern library for consistent and collaborative design

  6. September 2014 – September 2017

    Senior Software Engineer

    The Groundwork

    • Built software that powered Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Presidential Campaign responsible for 9MM donations totalling $600MM
    • Led a remote team of 7 engineers and designers. Conducted team meetings, helped define and clarify OKRs, and set expectations
    • Built the front-end event system for hillaryclinton.com used by over 14,000 to RSVP for the campaign kick-off rally in NYC
    • Designed products to serve dozens of nonprofits and NGOs including UNHCR and NYCHA

  7. March 2014 – September 2014

    Designer & Engineer

    Longform (freelance)

    • Designed the second version of their popular iOS app
    • Designed and built a mini marketing site to announce the app

  8. November 2011 – February 2014

    Product & Design Lead

    Readability (at Arc90)

    • Led a team of five engineers and designers. Held 1-on-1s, set and kept project pace. Worked with the CEO to define and execute product vision
    • Oversaw a redesign and rebuild of our iOS app, web site, and Chrome extension

  9. September 2008 – February 2014

    Designer & Engineer

    Arc90

  10. September 2007 – September 2008

    Designer & Engineer

    Freelance

  11. September 2006 – September 2007

    Web Designer

    Digi Craft Productions

Skills

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

Education

November 2004 - September 2006

Bachelor of Science in Digital Arts and Design

Full Sail University, Orlando Florida