Tyler Stevens
Senior Staff Engineer at Skydio
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTyler Stevens is a Senior Staff Engineer with a decade of experience building high-performance, safety-critical software and scaling engineering teams. He has led middleware and tooling transformations—driving transitions in build systems and repo strategies—while delivering deterministic simulation and testing for robotics at Shield AI. As a co-founder of a Rust-focused aerospace tooling startup and current Senior Staff Engineer at Skydio, he blends systems-level C++ expertise with modern Rust practices and pragmatic package management. He has deep experience in medical device R&D and real-time systems, and brings a developer-ergonomics mindset to complex distributed problems. Outside work he prototypes games and game tools, reflecting a long-standing habit of turning playful experimentation into production-quality software. Colleagues rely on him for architectural clarity, shipping-critical infrastructure, and mentoring engineers through risky technical transitions.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Yorba Linda High SchoolUniversity of California, Irvine
Github Skills (36)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tpstevens/imgui
Mar 2021 - Jul 2023
Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
user-interfacedependenciescppgraphical-user-interfacegui
tpstevens/swarm-robotics
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:67 commits, 4 pushes in 3 months
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