Tyler Deren
President at Something Classic Games
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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SeniorTyler Deren is a veteran full-stack engineer and founder with 13 years building games, SaaS platforms, and scalable backend services from Edmonton, Canada. As President of Swordmonkey Studios and former CTO/Lead Architect at Eduplaytion, he blends hands-on C#, Typescript, and Go development with cloud-native ops on OpenStack and Azure to deliver performant game clients and resilient backend systems. He often fills the “custodian” role—called in to tame bugs, restore services, and design maintainable, extensible architectures across mono- and microservice domains. Tyler has led small distributed teams, managed security and compliance for B2B education products, and shipped game servers, WebGL builds, and enterprise APIs. His entrepreneurial track record includes founding multiple studios and growing products that scaled to hundreds of thousands of users and multimillion-dollar recurring revenue. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic trade-offs that balance technical debt, operational hygiene, and creative product vision.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (72)
datatable10
datagrid10
rendering10
charts10
quadratic10
renderer10
javascript9
glsl9
spreadsheet9
angular9
data-visualization9
angular-ui9
canvas2d9
threejs9
component-library9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lTyl/Shadows-of-Adam-Mod-Builder
Dec 2018 - Apr 2022
This tool lets you build Shadows of Adam mod files.
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
mod-filesmodbuildershadowsadam
lTyl/impact-grid-movement
Sep 2013 - Apr 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 7 months
gridhelpers
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