Tyler Young
Software Developer & Integrator II
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTyler Young is a pragmatic software developer with 15 years of experience building integration-focused back-end systems across finance, federal, and enterprise environments, currently at USAA in San Antonio. He brings a strong systems background—from automating operational workflows and MDM APIs to CI/CD and SOAP-to-REST wrapping—and has delivered solutions in Java, Grails, .NET, and orchestration tools. An active Elixir contributor, Tyler has improved core library behavior and docs for the widely used elixir-lang project, showing a taste for functional programming and robust test suites. His career blends hands-on engineering with cross-disciplinary coordination (mechanical/electrical contractors to SMEs), which helps him translate complex operational requirements into reliable, automatable software.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, College Preparatory, Diploma, College Preparatory at Mehlville Senior HighBachelor of sciences, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Bachelor of sciences, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Saint Louis UniversityAssociates in Applied Science- Software Developer, Associates in Applied Science- Software Developer at Saint Louis Community College-Forest Park
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Github Skills (11)
functional-programming10
elixir10
testing10
documentation9
wordpress9
language-agnostic6
stl6
wildcard6
python6
llvm6
code-metrics6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
elixir-lang/elixir
Oct 2021 - Nov 2021
Elixir is a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 7 commits, 4 PRs in 12 days
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily contributed to the Elixir language's core library and test suite. Their work involved adding new functionality to the `Enum` module, specifically the `slide/3` function, which manipulates the order of elements within an enumerable. Further improvements included enhancing the handling of negative indices and clarifying error messages. They also clarified the potential for duplicate keys in the `Map.map/2` function and made documentation improvements to the `Task.Supervisor` module.
functional-languagescalablefunctional-programmingelixircompiler
X-Plane/python-script-utils
Jul 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:88 commits, 74 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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