Tyler Wendlandt
Senior Software Developer II - UI Platform
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTyler Wendlandt is a senior software developer with 12 years of experience specializing in JavaScript and Ruby, currently shaping UI platform work at DigitalOcean. He’s led major UI revamps and a shared design system at HashiCorp for Consul, enabling cross-application component reuse and faster delivery in complex legacy surfaces. Comfortable across Ember.js, React, and Rails, Tyler blends front-end craftsmanship with backend contributions (including Go) and mentorship that improves team hiring and onboarding. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved the Firefox DevTools debugger UX and polished the Consul UI, adding keyboard navigation, smarter source handling, and clearer agentless node experiences. Based in Edmonton, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a track record of reducing fraud and accelerating development cycles—often by finding small UX or infrastructure changes that yield outsized impact.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Specialization Computing Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Specialization Computing Science at University of Alberta
French, English
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Github Skills (19)
debugging10
debug10
javascript10
testing10
css10
ui-design10
uid10
emberjs10
front-end-development10
chai10
react10
html9
activerecord6
android-array-adapter6
berkeley-db6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/consul
Aug 2022 - Nov 2022
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:73 reviews, 55 commits, 82 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily focused on front-end development within the Consul UI, making changes to templates, components, and related JavaScript code. Their contributions include wrapping service names, updating empty-state copy throughout the app, removing node names from agentless service instances, hiding node names and metadata on agentless instances, and filtering synthetic nodes on the nodes list page. The user also added an agentless node notice banner and updated health checks.
api-gatewayecsgolangcenterdistributed
firefox-devtools/debugger
Sep 2018 - Mar 2019
The faster and smarter Debugger for Firefox DevTools 🔥🦊🛠
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 12 PRs, 3 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily contributed to the Firefox debugger's front-end, focusing on improving the source tree functionality and user experience. They implemented keyboard navigation features within the source tree, enabling users to navigate and interact with source files using arrow keys. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to the display of query parameters in source files and made improvements to quick open modal and breakpoint functionalities.
firefoxsmarterfasterdeveloper-toolsdebugging
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