Tyler Hinman
Operations Team Member
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTyler Hinman is a San Francisco-based software engineering contractor with a diverse background spanning Google, Lumosity, Vouch Insurance, Pomelo, and Crossplay Digital. He specializes in building scalable back-end services and automation (Python, Rails, TypeScript) and recently helped monetize Crosswordr by integrating ads and enabling PayPal-based premium exemptions. Beyond traditional software roles, he designed and shipped brain games at Lumosity, published crosswords in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and The Onion AV Club, authored Winner's Circle Crosswords (Sterling, 2013), and earned US Patent #8821242 for Pinball Recall. He is a seven-time American Crossword Puzzle Tournament champion and remains an active puzzle constructor and solver. Currently taking a brief professional pause, he brings a rare blend of rigor, creativity, and curiosity to software challenges, and is exploring his next chapter in the Bay Area.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Information Technology, BS Information Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (55)
omnisharp8
creator8
apache-royale8
csharp8
mxml8
c-sharp7
vscode7
cocos-creator7
spreadsheets7
language-extension7
google-sheets7
dotnet7
flexjs7
validate6
doc6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
svinstech/barkr
May 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:1 review, 11 commits, 6 PRs in 1 month
svinstech/zendesk-linkets
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
App/widget for linking Zendesk tickets. Built with ZAFv2
Contributions:2 reviews, 3 comments in 1 day
widgetapp-widgetzendesk-ticketszendesklinking
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