Tyler Coffman
Staff Software Engineer at AppFolio
Santa Barbara, California, United States
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Top SchoolTyler Coffman is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cross-platform, real-time communication and mobile features for large-scale products. Based in Santa Barbara, he progressed through roles at Avum, Citrix/LogMeIn, and AppFolio, modernizing legacy C++ codebases, migrating complex CI systems, and shipping native screen-sharing and VoIP features across desktop and mobile. He contributes to prominent open-source projects like react-native-webview, where he implemented iOS download callbacks and fixed Android file-download and cookie handling edge cases. Comfortable across languages and stacks—from C++ and Java to TypeScript and React Native—Tyler blends deep systems-level engineering with pragmatic product delivery. Colleagues rely on him for CI and source-control migrations and as the “git surgeon” who untangles thorny branch problems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of California, Santa Barbara
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Github Skills (9)
android-webview10
ios10
webview10
react-native10
android10
javascript9
typescript-types7
typescript7
typescripts7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
react-native-webview/react-native-webview
Feb 2020 - Aug 2021
React Native Cross-Platform WebView
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:3 reviews, 6 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily contributed to the React Native WebView component, focusing on Android and iOS platform-specific issues and feature enhancements. They addressed a bug related to file downloads on Android, adding a workaround and improving cookie handling. They also implemented a new iOS feature, allowing the application to receive callbacks when a file download is initiated from the webview and enabling the changing of the userAgent.
wkwebviewreactcross-platform-webviewreact-nativeandroid
appfolio/react-native-webview
Feb 2020 - Jul 2021
React Native Cross-Platform WebView
Contributions:8 PRs, 53 pushes, 25 branches in 1 year 5 months
wkwebviewreactcross-platform-webviewreact-nativeandroid
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