Tyler Childs
Software Engineer at The Walt Disney Studios
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolTyler Childs is a San Francisco–based software engineer and founder with 13 years of experience who excels at bridging product, engineering, and design. He’s held senior roles at Netflix and Inflection and now leads Sillyz.Computer and Hive Labworks, applying applied R&D to enterprise problems while shipping polished front-end and full‑stack experiences. Tyler specializes in front-end performance and UX—contributing to lightweight open-source work like cutestrap (2.7KB minified) where he improved typography, accessibility, mobile responsiveness and documentation. Known for a playful, systems-minded approach (he built an "operating system" application layer that runs in the browser), he turns bold prototypes into production features across React, Rails and modern JS tooling. He combines entrepreneurial grit with a knack for translating design intent into pixel‑perfect, accessible implementations.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
A.A. Website Design Website Design, A.A. Website Design Website Design at Cape Cod Community College
English, css, javascript, ruby
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Github Skills (5)
css10
front-end-development10
typography9
responsive-design9
accessibility8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tylerchilds/cutestrap
May 2016 - Oct 2019
A strong, independent CSS Framework. Only 2.7KB minified & gzipped.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 1 review, 148 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily focused on improving the front-end aspects of the Cutestrap CSS framework. Their contributions included tweaks to typography and grid layouts, as well as fixes for form element styles and accessibility. They also updated the documentation to correctly link source files and contributed to the mobile responsiveness of the framework. Finally, the user made adjustments to button styles.
csscss-frameworkindependentminified
tylerchilds/tylerchilds.github.io
Jan 2015 - Nov 2023
Contributions:127 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years
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