Ty Carlson
Senior Frontend Engineer, II at Givebutter
Newington, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTy Carlson is a Senior Frontend Engineer with over a decade of experience building websites, web and mobile apps, and design systems across startups and enterprise teams. He bridges design and engineering fluently, able to discuss subtle animation nuances with designers while crafting ergonomic frontend APIs with backend partners. His work includes shipping a React-based mobile banking app, creating a Rollup/Storybook-powered design system, and leading front-end efforts for SaaS and e-commerce products. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved accessibility and keyboard navigation for embedded tweet components in a popular React repo. Based in Newington, CT, Ty is a lifelong generalist who pairs humility and sincere communication with persistence in learning and product empathy. He brings a practical blend of UI/UX intuition and engineering rigor that consistently elevates both user experience and developer ergonomics.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Communication, Bachelor of Arts - BA Communication at Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Github Skills (8)
accessibility10
typescript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
html9
css8
nextjs7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
vercel/react-tweet
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
Embed tweets in your React application.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 10 commits, 13 PRs in 9 days
Contributions summary:Ty primarily contributed to the front-end of the project, specifically enhancing the user interface and accessibility features of embedded tweets. They focused on improving keyboard navigation for video elements and adding accessible text to UI elements like info icons. The user also addressed bugs and feature requests, such as decoding HTML entities and adding support for stock symbols, demonstrating proficiency in the project's codebase.
tywayne/twentysixteen
Aug 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:47 pushes, 44 branches in 7 months
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