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Tyler Richardson

Tyler Richardson

Full-Stack Software, Mobile, Game, and Systems Engineer

Portland, Oregon, US
111-111-1111
English, Japanese

Background


About

About

Full-stack software, mobile, game, and systems engineer with a skillset geared toward fast and scalable/stable innovation

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Senior Software Engineer, Nike

    Mar, 2024 - Jul, 20262 years 4 months

    Built full-stack solutions and pipelines for React, TypeScript, and Backstage applications

    • Stood up collaborative company-wide plugin-based Backstage portal and tooling

    • Developed community AI prompt and ruleset library plugin for larger Nike developer community

    • Championed practices for highly-monitored use of generative AI in code analysis, PRs, and planning

    • Refactored several legacy products into modern lightweight React/TypeScript equivalents

    • Led selected projects and met with key stakeholders to drive feature plans, demos, and feedback

  • Lead Technical Software Engineer (Contract), oVio Technologies Inc.

    Apr, 2025 - Oct, 20256 months

    Led substantial refactor of hard-to-maintain legacy code in software-to-hardware product

    • Mentored and led other developers in core code refactor, best practices, and prioritization

    • Attended stakeholder calls as representative tech lead for whiteboarding

    • Oversaw software implementation of new hardware to custom board

    • Wrote up SBOM contract and timeline for third-party software provider on potential project, written with full implementation and timeline in mind

  • Senior Full-Stack Innovation Engineer, Nike

    Aug, 2022 - Mar, 20241 year 7 months

    Efficiently and quickly ideated and executed on 3D/game-centered prototypes for innovation POC deliverables, while bringing experience in modular and scalable systems for strong foundations

    • Developed robust and interactive AR/XR applications in Unity (C#) and visionOS (Swift) for the Apple Vision Pro

    • Established real-time, collaborative, interactive, RTX-rendered USD video streams from federated VMs -- utilizing custom app built from NVIDIA Python SDK

    • Designed and implemented full-stack AWS and native web experiences/solutions in React Native, TypeScript, Electron, and Flutter for on-demand requests of interactive asset renders

    • Led, encouraged, and implemented best practices for CI/CD and code quality in an innovation space

  • Senior Software Engineer, Nike

    Aug, 2021 - Aug, 20221 year

    Led and redefined full-stack requirements around UI/UX for multi-user data pipeline web app

    • Identified and developed new UI/UX features in full-stack Vue + Scala + AWS application for on-demand transformative data streaming -- supporting multiple source/destination types

    • Monitored and managed Apache-based Kubernetes + Google Cloud infrastructure with Istio and Grafana/Prometheus

    • Created modular UI and middleware libraries for consistent look and feel, as well as decluttering code

  • Intermediate Software Engineer, Nike

    Nov, 2018 - Aug, 20212 years 9 months

    Designed and developed security-hardened handheld RFID/UPC scanner Android applications, infrastructure, and full-stack apps for daily use in product warehouses

    • Developed several Java (later Kotlin) Android applications backed by AWS for handheld RFID + UPC scanners -- enabling printing RFID-encoded labels for products in under 200 milliseconds from a restricted network warehouse

    • Designed and built companion full-stack Django apps for live product validation

    • Built, tested, and deployed geo-redundant backend AWS services and APIs for real-time RFID + UPC scanning tunnel validation

    • Ran containerized web servers via on-prem servers/gateways to communicate with Greengrass IoT devices in DCs on custom hardened Unix-based images

    • Traveled globally (Europe and Asia) as representative tech lead for demos, on-site ad-hoc development, and troubleshooting of product and services

  • Programmer Analyst, comScore Inc.

    Sep, 2016 - Nov, 20182 years 2 months

    Delivered ad-hoc-compiled statistical data aggregation of custom TV/web viewership, as well as developed automated solutions for time-sensitive deliverables

    • Built ad-hoc Python, Bash, Perl, and R scripts for data/statistical aggregation for ABC, NBC, FOX, etc -- using petabytes of individual set top box and raw web data

    • Utilized multiple Linux server clusters -- in addition to PostgreSQL, Redshift, and Greenplum databases -- to script, process, and pull data

  • Information Systems SME, MECOP Inc.

    Jan, 2015 - Jun, 20155 months

    Analyzed and developed automated process for digitizing a paper-based hiring company -- optimizing intake and evaluation processes for vastly-improved turnaround times

    • Prototyped full-stack website using C#+ASP.NET and SQL Server for application intake and management

    • Presented 88-page case study report detailing system requirements elicitation, operationalization, company analysis, and process/design instruction

Projects Experience

Projects Experience

  • "You Must Consume" - Unity Game for "Build Your Own Game Jam 2026"

    Feb, 2026 - Mar, 20261 month

    Led and implemented Unity (C#) software development, design, flow, stack, and source control for three-week two-person game jam

    • Championed modular and re-usable game system elements transferrable to future games

    • Co-led game concept, design, and features of core gameplay loop

    • Worked with lead designer to develop intuitive UI/UX flow for level development, with conditional interactables and behaviors OUTSIDE of scripting

Skills

Skills

  • Languages

    Java

    C#

    Python

    TypeScript

    JavaScript

    Bash

    Lua

    C++

    C

    Kotlin

    Swift

    Scala

    Go

    SQL

  • Frontend & Cross-Platform

    React

    Vue

    React Native

    Electron

    Flutter

  • Cloud, DevOps, & CI/CD

    Terraform

    AWS (EC2, Lambda, ECS, S3, IAM, etc)

    Google Cloud

    Jenkins

    Docker

    Kubernetes

    GitHub Actions

  • Backend & APIs

    Node

    Spring Boot

    Django

    ASP.NET

    REST

    SOAP

  • Mobile & Game

    Android

    Unity

    Oculus

    visionOS

  • AI Development & Tooling

    AI Coding Assistants (Copilot, Claude, Cursor)

    LLM Workflows

    Prompt/Context Engineering

    Model Context Protocol (MCP)

    AI Code Review

    AI-Assisted Debugging, Development, and Refactoring

  • Data & Distributed Systems

    PostgreSQL

    MongoDB

    MySQL

    Microsoft SQL Server

    Artifactory

    Apache Products (Flink, Hadoop, Kafka, NiFi, Spark)

  • Networking, Security, & Reporting

    OAuth/Okta

    Web Servers/Reverse Proxies (nginx, caddy, IIS, etc)

    DNS Management

    Splunk

    New Relic

    SignalFX

    Firewall Management

    Prometheus/Grafana

    Akamai

    Venafi

  • Embedded & Low-Level Systems

    C++

    C

    MicroPython

    RFID Systems

  • Other Concepts, Technologies, & Systems

    OOP

    Imperative/Functional Programming

    Full-Stack

    Network/Protocol Stack

    Linux/Unix (Arch Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian)

    Mac (Darwin)

    Windows/Windows Server

    Network/OS Security

    System & Network Administration (daemons, sys-level config, etc.)

    VCS/SCM (GitHub, BitBucket)

    CI/CD

    SPAs

    DDD/TDD

    IoT

    UI/UX

    MVVM/MVC

Education

Education

  • Information Systems, Bachelor of Science, Oregon State University

    Jan, 2012 - Jan, 2016

  • Japanese Studies, Certificate of Completion, Waseda University

    Jan, 2015 - Jan, 2016

Awards

Awards

  • Grow with Google Developer Scholarship - Android Developer Nanodegree , Google

    Awarded on: Apr 01, 2018

    Out of 1,000 nationally

  • Grow with Google Developer Challenge Scholarship - Intermediate Android Developer Track , Google

    Awarded on: Jan 01, 2018

    Out of 10,000 nationally