Tyler Hillsman
Senior Director Of Engineering at Outdoorsy
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolTyler Hillsman is a senior engineering leader with 11 years of experience driving mobile and web product delivery, currently serving as Senior Director of Engineering at Outdoorsy in Kansas City. He progressed from hands-on roles—iOS and front-end development, UX design, and entrepreneurship running his own web design studio—to strategic leadership overseeing mobile platforms and cross-functional teams. Tyler blends product-minded engineering with marketing and UX roots, enabling pragmatic decisions that balance user experience, technical debt, and business outcomes. His background includes building mobile teams and shipping apps at scale, and an MBA that informs his focus on operational maturity and measurable outcomes. Colleagues describe him as a builder who still values craft-level attention to UX and front-end detail despite leading at scale.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master Business Administration, Master Business Administration at Missouri State University
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Github Skills (63)
objective-c10
visionos10
storekit10
in-app-purchase10
swift10
swiftui10
ios9
barcode-scanner9
testflight9
android-app9
android9
automation9
tvos9
watchos9
simctl9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
thillsman/gifsearch
Jun 2014 - Jun 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years
chrishulbert/Wattle
Oct 2016 - Oct 2023
Super-simple API requests in Swift (wrapper for NSURLSession)
Contributions:2 PRs in 7 years
api-requestsnsurlsessionswift
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