Hello! My name is Tyler. I am a software developer. Online, I usually go by DataKinds, a name I ripped from the GHC extension of the same name. Hence, you’ve descended into DK’s ABODE.
Computers have been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I was in diapers helping my grandmother navigate her Windows 2000 PC to boot her casino games. Shortly after that, I was writing Roblox Lua and raking in enough tickets to buy some of the rarest gear on the platform. Don’t talk to me about how my account got hacked in 2018. I lost $25k!
Through school, when I wasn’t doing theatre and keeping up with coursework, I studied the blade. I became an enthusiast code-golfer, wielding Ruby as my tool of choice. I learned a whole slew of programming languages: not just Ruby, but Python, Haskell, C, and a handful of APLs — J first, then BQN later.
At the University of Arizona I bounced between a few things but decided to major in Mathematics and minor in Theatre. I graduated with this degree cum laude in 2021. During my degree I got the unique opportunity to work with Hydrant, a Ruby on Rails software house serving the local community. After that it was Firefly Drone Shows, a startup out of Michigan that put on extensive light shows across the country. I stuck with Firefly for almost 6 years and got the unique opportunity to really own a software stack that was vital for a company. To put it lightly, I caught the bug for management and haven’t shaken it since.
Since then I’ve worked with various companies on contract in the financial sector. I function best drinking from a firehose as long as I have the proper structural support, and both American Express and Coinbase provided that for me. With the former I learned risk management and event-driven development, with the latter I learned AI-first workflows and service-level optimization. Somewhere along the line I took a liking to Golang — what a crazy little gopher!
In my free time I study programming language theory. I have multiple different languages that I’ve experimented with over the years. I’m always looking to push the boundaries of what’s possible. When I’m not studying the above, I like to ride my skateboard, watch motorsports, do some woodworking, and play video games with my fiancée.
Is your team in need of a leader and communicator? Do you need a new creative perspective that will bring along a passion for language development and novel, in-house solutions? Start the conversation by following this link!
my portfolio
Click the link in the header directly above to find out about the projects I’ve worked on previously. Over here, you’ll also find ways to contact me and instructions for getting my resume.
my blog
Here’s a smattering blog posts for your edification. Below you can see my three latest blog posts, and if you’d like to see more please visit the link directly above.