Tyler Smith
Principal Scientist at smithdtyler.com
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTyler Smith is a Principal Scientist with 11 years of experience building software that translates research into practical, stakeholder-driven solutions. Based in Minneapolis, he combines a strong academic foundation (MS in Software Engineering) with hands-on engineering roles from Java systems to embedded and mobile work, and currently leads technical efforts at Galois. He prioritizes early and frequent stakeholder feedback to move projects from prototype to production while maintaining rigor and usability. Outside of core engineering he writes about ethics, faith, and parenting, authors a children’s book about computers, maintains open-source Android projects, and even builds picture frames—reflecting a pragmatic creativity that informs both product design and communication.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at South High SchoolUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
English, German
Stackoverflow
994reputation
72kreached
36answers
19questions
Github Skills (57)
convert9
image-processing9
syncthing9
synchronization9
image-manipulation9
music9
player9
imagemagick9
kotlin8
hla8
magick8
android8
image-conversion8
java8
filesystem8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
smithdtyler/play-fort-door-lock
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:9 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
smithdtyler/osate2-core
Mar 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:4 pushes in 6 months
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