Hunter Tunnicliff
Senior Software Engineer at Transcend
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolHunter Tunnicliff is a Senior Software Engineer in Portland with nine years building full‑stack web applications and developer tooling across startups and nonprofit organizations. He designs and ships front- and back-end systems—TypeScript React/Vue frontends and Node.js/PHP backends—while owning the full application lifecycle from design through deployment. At companies like Side and Interos he improved mission-critical workflows, developer experience, and onboarding by rebuilding internal tools, optimizing monorepos and CI, and driving adoption of OpenAPI tooling. Hunter is also an active open-source contributor: he helped evolve the widely used Tailwind CSS color handling and added a swr-openapi package and modernized toolchain work in the openapi-typescript project. Colleagues rely on him to turn messy requirements into maintainable systems that speed shipping and reduce operational friction.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Biola University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
testing10
css10
typescript10
tailwind10
css-frameworks10
tailwindcss10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
vitest10
swagger9
openapi9
postcss8
cicd7
html6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
openapi-ts/openapi-typescript
Jun 2022 - Mar 2025
Generate TypeScript types from OpenAPI 3 specs
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 17 PRs, 24 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Hunter significantly contributed to the `openapi-typescript` repository by adding the `swr-openapi` package, integrating new dependencies, and updating existing ones. They refactored the code base, including removing ESLint and Prettier in favor of Biome, as well as upgrading to Vitest v3. Moreover, the user fixed bugs and improved documentation, contributing to the project's overall maintainability.
openapi3-1specstypescript-typesopenapi-generatoropenapi3
tailwindlabs/tailwindcss
Jul 2021 - Aug 2021
A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 9 comments in 18 days
Contributions summary:Hunter contributed to the core functionality of the Tailwind CSS framework. Their primary focus was on refactoring color handling within the utility functions and adding associated unit tests. They introduced and integrated the culori library for color parsing and formatting. Furthermore, the user addressed CSS variable declarations and formatting issues within the framework.
tailwindcssui-developmentcssutility-firstframework
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