Dylan Tackoor
Teaching Fellow at CS50xMiami
Miami, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolDylan Tackoor is a teaching-focused software engineer with 10 years of experience blending full-stack development, program coordination, and education in the Miami tech community. As a long-time CS50xMiami Teaching Fellow and former program coordinator, he pairs hands-on instruction with practical engineering from prior Full-Stack work at Worldmedia Interactive. Dylan contributes to notable open-source projects—improving TypeScript types and refactoring FirstPersonControls in the popular pmndrs/three-stdlib—and has automated and hardened emulator tooling for the Steam Deck in EmuDeck. He brings a pragmatic mindset to code quality, automation, and user experience, with a knack for streamlining workflows that surfaces in both classroom settings and release engineering.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Miami Killian Senior HighschoolAssociate of Arts (AA), Computer Science, Associate of Arts (AA), Computer Science at Miami Dade College
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Github Skills (18)
threejs10
file-management10
system-configuration10
typescript10
bash10
automation10
script10
typescript-types10
3d10
configurations10
typescripts10
automations10
helper-methods9
form-helper9
flatpak9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pmndrs/three-stdlib
Feb 2021 - Mar 2021
📚 Stand-alone library of threejs examples designed to run without transpilation in node & browser
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 38 commits, 9 PRs in 5 days
Contributions summary:Dylan primarily contributed to the `FirstPersonControls` component, focusing on code organization, type safety, and method refactoring. Their work involved adding TypeScript types, updating event handlers, and streamlining constructor functions. The user also implemented fixes to the `FirstPersonControls` component and ensured compatibility with the project's existing codebase.
stand-alonebrowserstandwebgltranspilation
dragoonDorise/EmuDeck
May 2022 - Sep 2022
Emulator configurator for Steam Deck
Role in this project:Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 10 commits, 19 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Dylan primarily focused on automating and improving the EmuDeck configuration and management process. They made significant changes to scripts related to Steam Rom Manager (SRM), including adding prompts and correcting desktop shortcut functionality. Their work also involved migrating Dolphin emulator save states and integrating Primehack, demonstrating a focus on streamlining emulator setup and data management within the EmuDeck ecosystem. These changes improved the user experience for Steam Deck users.
emulatorconfiguratordecksteam-deckemulation
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