Tys Von Gaza
Professional Hobbyist at Self-employed
Kimberley, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolTys Von Gaza is a seasoned software and people leader with 17 years of experience building teams and products from startup to scale, currently based in Kimberley, British Columbia. He helped grow Clio from its earliest days as employee #1 into a 200+ developer organization, leading platform, mobile and internal systems while shaping hiring, career ladders, and diversity efforts. Tys blends hands-on engineering and product instincts—shipping Clio’s first mobile apps and public API—with a strong focus on cultivating customer-focused managers and high-performing teams. More recently he led engineering at health-tech startup Aeon Health before moving into fractional development and now pursuing independent, curiosity-driven projects as a Professional Hobbyist. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who pairs technical depth with a knack for scaling people and processes. An early entrepreneur and event organizer, he brings startup grit and operational experience across product, engineering and customer-facing roles.
17 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computing Science, BSc Computing Science at University of Alberta
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Github Skills (113)
testing10
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ruby10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
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firefox10
turbo10
html10
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
PolyglotConfAlberta/polyglotconfalberta.github.io
Feb 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 years 1 month
harpjavascriptpolyglot
polyglotyyc/polyglotyyc.github.io
Mar 2018 - May 2019
Polyglot Calgary site
Contributions:56 commits, 1 PR, 43 pushes in 1 year 2 months
polyglotcalgary
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