Tyler Long
Senior Engineering Manager at Apple
United States
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Top SchoolTyler Long is a Senior Engineering Manager at Apple with 12 years of software engineering experience rooted in backend development and technical leadership. He brings a rare blend of life-sciences education and engineering practice—holding a bachelor's in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology—which informs a data-driven, experimental approach to product and team decisions. Tyler is an active open-source contributor in the Elixir community, improving exercise repositories by modernizing code (migrating Dict to Maps), adding typespecs, and shipping new algorithmic exercises like acronym generation and run-length encoding. He excels at mentoring engineers and translating complex technical requirements into maintainable systems at scale. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who values code quality and developer experience as much as delivery. Outside of work he combines scientific curiosity with hands-on coding, often contributing to community education through exercise-driven learning.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology, Biochemistry, Bachelor's degree, Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology, Biochemistry at University of Colorado Boulder
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Github Skills (4)
elixir10
tracks10
regex9
typespec8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
exercism/elixir
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Exercism exercises in Elixir.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 9 commits, 11 PRs in 16 days
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily contributes to the Elixir code base by implementing and modifying exercises. They added a new exercise for acronym generation and another for run-length encoding. Additionally, the user updated existing code to use Maps instead of deprecated Dicts and added typespecs for better code quality.
exercismelixirexercism-exercisesexercism-trackcommunity-contributions-accepted
Teapane/teapane.github.io
Feb 2016 - May 2020
Contributions:14 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 3 months
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