Tyler Mccraw
Principal Engineer at Extend
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolTyler Mccraw is a Principal Engineer with 11 years crafting native mobile experiences and leading teams, currently steering Android platform efforts at Extend. He combines deep Android expertise (Kotlin/Java, custom controls, Material Design, Coroutines/Flow, Dagger/Hilt, Room, testing patterns) with practical experience across iOS, backend Kotlin/Spring, and Windows platforms, enabling pragmatic cross-platform solutions. A hands-on technical leader and mentor, he creates processes that boost developer productivity—CI/CD, linting, static analysis, security and performance monitoring—and encourages engineers to grow through experiments, talks, and stretch opportunities. Tyler contributes to open-source Android tooling (notably improvements to android-betterpickers) and brings a user-focused mindset from early work building real-time finance and large-scale campus survey apps. Based in Durham, NC, he pairs a coffee-fueled curiosity and mountain-biking energy with a knack for turning complex app requirements into maintainable, testable architectures.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at North Carolina State University
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Github Skills (16)
javas10
android10
java10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
github-repos9
git-repository9
android-studio9
uid9
android-intent6
objective-c6
http6
kotlin6
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android-volley6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
code-troopers/android-betterpickers
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
[NO LONGER MAINTAINED] Android library for better Picker DialogFragments
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily contributed to the Android library for better Picker DialogFragments, focusing on the CalendarDatePickerDialogFragment. They implemented features like disabling specific days in the calendar and fixed an issue related to retaining disabled days after the view was destroyed. Furthermore, the user updated the code to change the text color and updated various components of the library, including the MonthView and MonthAdapter, to enhance functionality.
android-libraryandroidcustom-viewkotlinpicker
smashingboxes/surelock
Feb 2017 - Nov 2020
Contributions:8 PRs, 14 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 9 months
fingerprint-authenticationelementaryauthenticationandroidfingerprint
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