Software Developer at Bleacher Report
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Software Engineer at Self-emploed
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- Software Engineer at Bleacher Report
- Audio Engineer and Supervisor at Sound & Vision Magazine
- Software Designer at Modal Software
- Software Developer at Suntreat Packing & Shipping Co.
- Network and Software Engineer at Visalia Christian Supply
- Internal Services Intern at Tulare County Office of Education
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Tyler Love’s Summary
I have been developing websites professionally for over six years. I've spent the last three years developing Ruby and Ruby on Rails web apps. I am familiar with the entire web stack; from setting up fast, scalable server architecture, optimizing databases and queries, to implementing advanced, javascript-heavy user-interfaces.
I want to: Work with creative people that have good ideas. Utilize modern web technology. Be challenged. Make killer web applications.
I believe in: Really thoughtful interfaces. Clean, fast, and reusable code. Delivering a beautiful product. Language and library agnosticism (just use the right tool for the job, always). Enjoying and being proud of what you do.
Tyler Love’s Specialties:
Ruby, Rails, modern Javascript, Push Technologies, Prototype, MySQL, AJAX, C, Nginx, Monit, Passenger, Mongrel, Scalability
Tyler Love’s Experience
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Software Engineer
Self-emploed
(Internet industry)
July 2009 — Present (5 months)
Resigned from Bleacher Report to pursue a career as a freelance software developer. Seeking out new challenges and
technologies, willing to work from anywhere in the world.
Developed a music marketing and media tool for the iPhone. The app allows concert-goers a way to view song and band
information during a concert, as well as tweet, photograph, and interact with the band.
Developed interactive graphics application for concert-goers to control interactive visuals with a performing band in real-time.
The user logs onto network from their iPhone and controls the XY coordinates of a sprite drawn on a projector screen. The sprites
parameters (blur, size, shape, etc) are affected by volume velocities from instruments in the band -
Software Engineer
Bleacher Report
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Sports industry)
January 2008 — July 2009 (1 year 7 months)
FaceBook-like Image Gallery: Preloaded data into a fully cached JSON object to avoid page refreshes. This required implementing
an ad platform that allowed us to dynamically reload ads, and update analytical data. It was also required to be SEO friendly, 100%
crawlable, and fall back to standard page reloads when Javascript was disabled. The day after deploy the feature was hit with
record traffic without any hiccups and resulted in massive increase in pageviews per visit, and an increase in performance.
Activities: Implemented a scalable site-wide activity monitor. Activities can be filtered by type, subject, user, or any combination
of the three. They can be viewed on a page in real time by utilizing flash push technology, which in turn was more efficient than
clients blindly polling servers.
Getty Image Integration: Created tasks that sync thousands of images from Getty Images to our servers. Process and manipulate
the images, then store and index the image IPTC data. The index was then used to dynamically generate high-quality image
galleries for sporting events that could be viewed within the hour of any event with a Getty Images photographer (virtually
anything). -
Audio Engineer and Supervisor
Sound & Vision Magazine
(Internet industry)
April 2005 — June 2008 (3 years 3 months)
Responsible for operating and maintaining live sound equipment in multiple venues for nationally touring bands.
Started out as a volunteer intern and after only two months gained the primary engineer position.
Ran and directed audio systems for the annual Sound & Vision Magazine Music and Arts Festival and Visalia All Music Festival. -
Software Designer
Modal Software
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2005 — January 2008 (3 years 1 month)
Lead developer for Modal Software's flagship product ActionRev http://actionrev.com
Worked as sole developer to maintain an immense desktop business application while personally supporting world-wide clients.
In 2007 began work on a web-based replacement. In 6 months I helped build a team of 4 developers, and after only 8 months
had our first clients entirely transferred to the new web app. -
Software Developer
Suntreat Packing & Shipping Co.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2003 — January 2005 (1 year 8 months)
Software Developer. Developed systems to ease access of information to employees. Worked with a large database to gather data to help the company run smoothly.
Developed and optimized a wide array of data-driven business applications.
Worked extensively with MS-SQL, ASP.NET, C#.NET, VB.NET, ASP/VBScript, Javacript, RDS, .NET Web Services and Microsoft Excel
VBA in order to provide streamlined data modification and reporting. -
Network and Software Engineer
Visalia Christian Supply
(Internet industry)
May 2002 — July 2003 (1 year 3 months)
Maintained network and helped to develop web applications to streamline business locally and for 5 separate remote locations
throughout central California
Managed a network between locations and developed solutions to make data communication seamless.
Responsible for managing a large inventory and product database between the stores. All development was done using C#.NET,
ASP.NET and MSSQL. -
Internal Services Intern
Tulare County Office of Education
(Internet industry)
June 2002 — January 2003 (8 months)
performing various support tasks throughout a large network and office area.
Performed network and server maintenance as well as helping other employees to resolve technical issues.
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Tyler Love’s Interests:
Technology, Software Development, Ruby, Music, Guitars
Tyler Love’s Groups:
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Bleacher Report
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