Bay Area, CA | tylerd2474@gmail.com | linkedin | GitHub/a-Fig | aFig.dev

San Jose State University | B.S. Computer Science — Expected May 2028

Relevant coursework: Data Structures & Algorithms, Object-Oriented Design, Operating Systems, Advanced C++, Advanced Python
Clubs: ACM, Competitive Programming Club

De Anza College

Certificate of Achievement, Advanced C++ Programming — Dec 2024

ACM @ SJSU | Consulting Project Lead San Jose, CA — Sep 2026 – Present

• Leading a client consulting engagement through the club, coordinating a small team from requirements through delivery

Competitive Programming Club | Tech Officer De Anza College — Sep 2025 – Feb 2026

• Delivered weekly lectures on algorithms and data structures to club members
• Mentored students 1-on-1 to prepare them for ICPC

Shipcaptain (Startup) | Software Engineering Intern Remote — Jun 2025 – Aug 2025

• Built a secure, full-stack admin portal using Next.js 15, TypeScript, Prisma, and PostgreSQL
• Implemented role-based access control, audit logging, and middleware-based route protection
• Integrated NextAuth.js for authentication and password reset workflows with automated email notifications

Serraform Labs (Startup) | Software Engineering Intern Remote — Oct 2022 – Jul 2023

• Built the on-chain smart contract handling user payments via the USDC token, as part of a 7-person team shipping a live Web3 product for a multi-billion dollar crypto project
• Integrated customizable subscription terms, administrative fund oversight, and comprehensive event logging

• 2nd place — UC Berkeley's AI Hackathon 2026 - Won sponsor track for best token compression solution with Accordion
• 1st place — SJSU Admitted Spartan Programming Contest, Apr 2025
• 3rd place — DAHACKS-3.5 with AceAnything, May 2025
• Top 20 on-site — ICPC Regional, Feb 2024 & Nov 2024

Accordion ⭐243 — TypeScript, Tauri, Rust | 🏆 2nd @ UC Berkeley AI Hackathon 2026 | get-accordion.dev | github

• Opensource project with 200+ stars on github
• Intelligent context management and visualization tool for developers
• Replaces /compact with reversible, per-block folding and interchangeable context strategies that decides when and how to edit context between turns
• Batched context edits to minimize KV-cache invalidations, cutting inference costs by up to 90%*
• Used the attention from a 500M parameter model as a proxy to rank the relevance of past context
• Achieved 83.3% task completion vs 33.3% for naive compaction on SlopCodeBench with a constrained 100k-token budget

AfterCart — PostgreSQL, Google Vision API, Cloud Run, Gemini | live | github

• Receipt-to-price-comparison tool: photograph a grocery receipt, get a basket-level comparison across nearby stores in real time
• Ingested 18,649 real price observations across 14,053 unique barcodes and 244 stores via Open Food Facts and live receipt data
• Deployed to production on Google Cloud Run with PostgreSQL + PostGIS + pgvector; OCR via Google Vision API, item matching via Gemini 2.5 Flash

Automated Game Bot ⭐25 — Python, Computer Vision, Multithreading | github | video (0:42)

• Built a fully autonomous game bot using 5 custom YOLOv11 object detection models and a multithreaded architecture to drive real-time decisions in a dynamic environment
• A closed-source fork which acts as a market maker in a digital market achieved consistent profitability across $840K+ in total volume and tracks 10+ KPIs for visibility

Blockchain Projects — Solidity, JavaScript

• Built a Uniswap v3 position manager implementing concentrated liquidity optimization and secure OpenZeppelin contracts

Languages: Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, C++, Solidity, Rust (Tauri)
Frontend: Next.js 15, Svelte/SvelteKit, Vue, Tauri
Backend: FastAPI, Flask, Prisma, NextAuth.js, Node.js
Databases: PostgreSQL, PostGIS, pgvector, Cloud SQL
Cloud & Infrastructure: Google Cloud Run, Cloudflare Pages/Workers, Durable Objects, Docker
AI / ML: Claude Code, pi, MCP, YOLOv11, Transformers.js, Gemini API