Summary
Tj Carskadon is a results-driven software engineer with 10 years of professional experience, currently building scalable features at Yelp and working full-stack across React, Node.js, Python, and PHP for italist.com. He brings a maker’s mindset from a varied career that includes product development and international operations leadership in consumer goods, which informs his pragmatic approach to shipping product-focused engineering. Comfortable prototyping new tech and improving internal processes, he pairs strong collaboration with Product and Management to define and execute growth strategies. A former instructor at Hack Reactor, he also has hands-on experience helping developers level up on algorithms and interview readiness. Based in Oakland, he combines creative problem solving (rooted in a B.S. in Music Engineering) with disciplined engineering practices to deliver exceptional user experiences. Notably, his background leading hardware and toy product engineering gives him an unusual perspective on end-to-end product design and manufacturability in software projects.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Program, Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Program at Hack Reactor
B.S. Music Engineering, B.S. Music Engineering at University of Colorado Denver
English, Chinese