Tyler Jang
Senior Software Engineering at Trunk
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTyler Jang is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with seven years of experience building developer-focused tooling and infrastructure. At Trunk he has driven efforts from LLM-based agent tooling to a frontend authorization overhaul and OCI migration, consistently improving performance and developer experience. He has a strong track record shipping cross-platform developer tools—porting linters to Windows, building git-hook autoformatters, and designing validation frameworks that keep open-source integrations reliable. A Duke engineer (’22) who also taught and led technical education tracks, Tyler blends hands-on implementation with user-facing documentation and support. He leans into backend and infra work that makes other engineers’ lives easier, and has increasingly focused on agentic tooling and modernization of critical dependencies. An often-overlooked strength is his emphasis on measurable load-time and adoption improvements when refactoring core systems.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Engineer's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science at Duke UniversityDeerfield High SchoolHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Dimond High School
French, English
Github Skills (105)
trunk10
security10
linter10
linting10
formatters10
credentials10
developer-tools10
verification10
lint10
plugin10
scanning10
mesh9
secrets9
client-library9
open-hardware9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
trunk-io/bazel-action
Oct 2023 - Jul 2024
A GitHub Action for computing, uploading, and testing bazel impacted targets
Contributions:1 release, 4 reviews, 21 PRs in 8 months
trunk-io/neovim-trunk
Oct 2023 - Jun 2024
The official Trunk Check Plugin for Neovim
Contributions:3 releases, 14 reviews, 18 PRs in 8 months
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