Cyle Gage
Director Of Product at Raptive
Massachusetts, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolCyle Gage is a product and engineering leader with 11+ years building scalable, community-driven platforms and a track record of shipping features that materially moved metrics at Tumblr, from re-architecting post storage to launching Tumblr Premium and Communities. He blends hands-on backend architecture and prototyping with product strategy, having led incubator-style teams (Tumblr Labs) and driven monetization and retention improvements. Comfortable toggling between executive alignment and API-level documentation, he mentors engineers and PMs while shaping team culture and developer workflows. Cyle also contributes to open-source tooling for the Tumblr API (tumblr.js), reflecting a continuing commitment to maintainable integrations. Now based in Massachusetts, he’s focused on designing healthier online communities and experimenting with bold growth ideas.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BFA, New Media, BFA, New Media at Emerson College
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
api10
apidoc10
tumblr10
nodejs8
test-automation6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tumblr/tumblr.js
Jul 2020 - Dec 2021
JavaScript client for the Tumblr API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1 review, 11 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Cyle primarily focused on maintaining and updating the `tumblr.js` library, a JavaScript client for the Tumblr API. Their contributions involved refining the codebase, specifically by updating the base URL and API endpoints to match the latest API version. These updates included enhancements such as adding helpful warnings and correcting existing functionalities within the library. Additionally, they focused on comments and resolving a test case to improve the library's usability.
apitumblr-apijavascript-clientjavascripttumblr
tumblr/docs
Oct 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 review, 71 commits, 6 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.