Tim Lytle
Mercenary Developer at Lytle Labs
Hamburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolTim Lytle is a seasoned mercenary developer and API-focused backend engineer with 16 years of experience helping companies gain senior technical leadership without full-time hires. Based in Hamburg, Pennsylvania, he combines hands-on PHP expertise—authoring core functionality for the widely used Vonage PHP SDK—with product-minded API design and integration work across startups and scaleups. He has held engineering and leadership roles at PhoneBurner and BeckonCall and previously advocated for API best practices at Nexmo/Vonage, bridging developer experience with production realities. Comfortable leading teams or shipping solo, Tim pairs rigorous unit-tested implementations with pragmatic refactors that modernize authentication and voice/SMS flows. Outside of full-time roles he runs Lytle Labs as a consulting hub, and occasionally writes and speaks on APIs and developer tooling.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Associates, Electronics Engineering, Associates, Electronics Engineering at Lincoln Technical Institute
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Github Skills (32)
apim10
api-rest10
twitter10
messaging10
api-design10
restful-api10
zend-framework10
sms10
php10
api10
sms-messages10
rest-api10
twilio10
mysql9
unit-testing9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Vonage/vonage-php-sdk-core
Jul 2013 - May 2017
Vonage REST API client for PHP. API support for SMS, Voice, Text-to-Speech, Numbers, Verify (2FA) and more.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & API Developer
Back-end Developer & API DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 81 commits, 16 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Tim implemented the core functionality of the Vonage PHP SDK core, including API client creation, message types, and support for various authentication methods like basic and OAuth. They designed and built the foundation for SMS message sending, including methods for binary, wap, and text message types. The user also incorporated testing with unit tests to validate various optional parameters. The user refactored the code to align with newer concepts and added features to cover voice APIs and authentication flows.
sms-messagesdeveloper-destinationnexmovoice-to-textserver-sdk
Nexmo/Quickstarts
Jun 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:49 commits, 2 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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