About

Hey there!

I'm Tyler, a developer/engineer working somewhere in the overlap between games, software, and interactive experiences. I like building things that are cool, fun, and useful.

The short version of my path: CS undergrad, then a Master's at Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center, and building things professionally ever since.

Lately I've been doing real-time Unreal and TouchDesigner work for screens way bigger than my own monitor, a Maya plugin I cannot say too much about yet, an ASL hand-tracking game you can play right in a browser tab, an air-hockey game with networking written from scratch (it won me a teddy bear and a banana), an award-winning hygiene game for kids, and a machine-learning library built from the tensor ops up.

Before all that, back in 2023, there were VR and AR games played from a motion chair or an actual inflatable boat, plus a fast-food game you play with your whole body on a balance platform. There is more where that came from over on the projects page.

Most of what I do falls into three modes, and my favorite projects touch all three at once:

• Games: small, deliberate, and satisfying to get right. I like systems I understand and new stuff I can learn from.
• Software: tools, plugins, and the kind of infrastructure that makes a team faster with or without anyone noticing.
• Creative: real-time graphics, projection, generative work, and interfaces that reward a little curiosity.

I like to learn as I build, and sometimes under pressure, which I have come to believe is the best way to actually learn and grow. I write about the messy middle in my posts, where I think out loud, get things wrong, and occasionally figure something out.

When I am not at a keyboard, I am usually playing basketball, hitting the gym, playing a game, or picking the drums back up after letting them get rusty. That is about as much of me as the internet needs.