Tyler Wilding
Staff Software Developer at Auvik
Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTyler Wilding is a Staff Software Developer with a decade of experience building mission-critical backends and polished frontends across polyglot stacks (Java, Go, TypeScript, Dart, Python). He has led cross-team initiatives—migration to Kubernetes, BYOK/HYOK encryption with AWS KMS, and company-wide product eliminations—while shipping customer-facing features under tight deadlines. Tyler pairs strong backend systems work with notable open-source contributions to projects like the PCSX2 emulator and the Jak & Daxter revival, where he improved compression, instruction support, and developer UX for REPLs. Comfortable as a technical lead and hands-on contributor, he’s repeatedly driven end-to-end delivery from API and infra to frontend UX. Based in Ontario, Canada, he brings a pragmatic blend of large-company architecture and niche technical craftsmanship that surfaces in both production tooling and emulator restoration efforts.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor's of Computer Science, Computer Science at Algoma University
Github Skills (13)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
front-end-development10
optimization9
reverse-engineering9
performance-optimization9
emulation9
optmization9
optimisation9
wxwidgets9
assembly8
mips8
yaml6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
open-goal/jak-project
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
Reviving the language that brought us the Jak & Daxter Series
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:325 reviews, 465 commits, 976 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Tyler focused on refactoring the miniLZO usage in the `jak-project` repository by switching to LZOkay for DGO decompression. They also contributed to VU VF instruction support by adding majority of the remaining VU VF instructions and providing test coverage, and fixing bugs/optimizing various instructions. Further, they added a `(repl-help)` command to the REPL, added support for cross-session history, and improved the overall user experience by adding clear-screen, auto-complete, and basic hints.
schemejak-and-daxterjakps2lisp
PCSX2/pcsx2
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
PCSX2 - The Playstation 2 Emulator
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 167 reviews, 260 commits in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily contributed to the input recording feature of the PCSX2 Playstation 2 emulator. Their work involved creating a GUI dialog for new recordings, implemented functionality to save snapshots, and refactored the recording file implementation. The user also made various formatting and code review corrections, and added support for a constant real-time clock for power-on recordings, thus showing a focus on the core recording functionality within the emulator.
playstation-2cppemulatorps2emulation
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