Tyler Johnson
Senior Software Engineer at Markup AI
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTyler Johnson is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building full-stack JavaScript applications, from informational websites to large-scale real-time Node.js and browser systems. Based in Fort Collins, he has led product and engineering at Pagedip for over a decade and now focuses on AI-driven productivity tooling at Markup AI. An active open-source contributor, Tyler has made notable front-end contributions to the Slate rich text editor—improving selection handling, editing behavior, and nested content-editable support. He blends deep React and editor internals expertise with product sensibility, and has a practical maker background dating back to web work for a woodworking business. Known for shipping pragmatic solutions, he often surfaces subtle UX fixes that prevent complex editing regressions in production.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of Wyoming
Stackoverflow
927reputation
725kreached
8answers
11questions
twitter-bootstrap
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Github Skills (23)
editors10
javascript10
rich-text10
text-editor10
app-framework10
browser10
editor10
slate10
web-framework10
react10
twitter-bootstrap9
component-kit8
html6
double6
button-group6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ianstormtaylor/slate
Jul 2016 - Mar 2017
A completely customizable framework for building rich text editors. (Currently in beta.)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 10 PRs, 35 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily contributed to the Slate rich text editor framework by implementing and refining features within the core components and editor functionality. They addressed selection handling, improved content editing behavior, and added test fixtures. The user demonstrated expertise in React component interactions and transformations within the editor. Furthermore, they focused on bug fixes related to deleting across inlines and enhanced the non-editable state handling for nested content-editables.
rich-textrichtextbrowserjavascriptrte
tyler-johnson/autorelease-travis
Mar 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:6 releases, 6 PRs, 15 pushes in 2 years
travissteps
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