# tyler (@tylergaw.com)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/tylergaw.com
Headline: Making stuff
Location: New York, New York, United States

## About

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

## Career

- **Founder at Latchbolt** (Aug 2025 - Present)
  New York, NY
  Building an independent, joyful software practice. Starting with Pezzos, the iOS app for modern collage.
- **Founding Engineer at Summer** (Nov 2023 - Jul 2025)
- **Director Of Engineering at Rokt** (Feb 2021 - Apr 2023)
  New York
  \- Built a work culture that attracted talent and improved the day-to-day experience for existing team members
  \- 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
- **Lead Engineer & Designer at ideas42 Ventures** (May 2020 - Feb 2021)
  New York, New York, US
  Built a technology and design foundation for the budding venture studio
- **Lead Product Engineer at StreetCred Labs** (Jun 2018 - May 2020)
  New York
  \- 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 https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/11/snap-acquires-streetcred/
- **Co-Founder at Limbo** (Feb 2017 - Jun 2018)
  Limbo was an anonymous hiring platform intending to reduce discrimination in the tech industry and make hiring more comfortable for everyone.
  \- 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 and grew a pattern library for consistent and collaborative design.
- **Senior Software Engineer at The Groundwork / Timshel** (Sep 2014 - Sep 2017)
  New York
  \- 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
- **Mobile Application Designer at Longform.org** (Apr 2014 - Sep 2014)
  New York
  \- Led a design effort to help Longform launch their highly anticipated iOS application
- **Product Lead at Arc90 / Readability** (Aug 2013 - Feb 2014)
  New York
  While at Arc90, after working on Readability as a designer and frontend engineer, I moved into the role of Product Lead to help continue to grow the product
  \- 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 vision
  \- Oversaw a redesign of our iOS app, site, and Chrome extension
- **Designer / Engineer at Arc90** (Sep 2008 - Feb 2014)
  New York
- **Web Developer at Digicraft Advertising Agency** (Sep 2006 - Sep 2007)

## Skills

### Technical
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- HTML
- JavaScript
- Python (Programming Language)
- React Native
- React.js
- Redux.js
- Software Development
- Technical Documentation
- Test Driven Development
- TypeScript
### Business
- Hiring
- Product Development
### Creative
- Design
- Design Systems
- Graphic Design
- Illustration
- Interaction Design
- Product Design
- User Experience (UX)
- Web Design
### Interpersonal
- Leadership
- People Management
### Other
- Astro
- Conference Speaking
- eleventy
- I18n
- Interviewing
- Sketch App

## Education

- **Full Sail University** — Bachelor of Science - BS (2004 - 2006)