Tyler Holzer
Director Of Engineering at The Zebra
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTyler Holzer is a Director of Engineering based in Austin with nine years of software and leadership experience, currently leading engineering at The Zebra. He blends hands-on full-stack engineering (React, Node, AWS) with people-first management—scaling teams, instituting KPIs, and formalizing hiring and interview processes. Tyler has a track record of delivering high-availability APIs and enterprise integrations (SSO, analytics pipelines) and has run offshore mobile engineering efforts for iOS and Android launches. An advocate of the “productive struggle,” he coaches engineers through growth, established mentor groups, and drove learning-and-development programs at prior companies. His background in English and education informs clear technical writing and thoughtful onboarding practices that reduce churn. A former educator-turned-engineer, he pairs human-centered leadership with practical technical ownership to move products from MVP to stable scale.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.A. English - Writing Publishing and American Literature, M.A. English - Writing Publishing and American Literature at University of Nebraska at OmahaAdvanced Software Engineering Immersive, Advanced Software Engineering Immersive at Hack Reactor
German, French
Github Skills (3)
chromecast4
chrome-extension4
chrome3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sidewalkchalk/hackalope
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:174 commits, 89 PRs, 35 pushes in 28 days
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rezloh/hackalope
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:65 pushes in 27 days
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