Tanner H. Lyon Software Engineer

661-***-**** ad3nia@r.postjobfree.com TannerLyon.com linkedin.com/in/tannerhlyon github.com/THLyon TECHNOLOGIES

React (Classes, Hooks), JavaScript (ES6+), Node.js, TypeScript, Redux, SQL databases (PostgreSQL), NoSQL databases (Firebase, MongoDB), HTML5, CSS3, Git, webpack, Vite, Testing (Jest, React Testing Library, Mocha), Python, OAuth, AWS/Cloudtech EXPERIENCE

TaxNow Software Engineer Nov 2023 - Current

- Leveraged Node.js and TypeScript to seamlessly call and parse data from the IRS database, affording clients a user-friendly interface for a comprehensive view of their taxes with a focus on current status, expected financials, and audit status.

- Employed Next.js with TypeScript creating a modular and modern design for sign-in, signup, and client on-boarding web pages, prioritizing backend loading and API calls to enhance platform performance and elevate the overall developer experience.

- Enhanced user experience by modifying the both the email validation process to accurately indicate non-existent accounts, leveraging PostgreSQL and Supabase for optimized database queries and error handling, resulting in clearer communication and user guidance during the authentication process.

- Implemented and streamlined the CI/CD pipeline in GitLab, integrating automated build, test, and deployment processes for continuous delivery and quality assurance, significantly enhancing deployment efficiency and software reliability.

- Refined user feedback mechanisms by implementing targeted error responses for OTP verification failures, thereby fostering clearer communication, enhancing security protocol transparency, and minimizing user misconceptions of system malfunctions. CS Engineering Software Engineer Aug 2022 - Oct 2023

- Optimized legacy codebase by replacing deprecated SQL utilities with updated PostgreSQL queries, as well as improving middleware unit testing to increase performance and enhance platform reliability.

- Refactored React class components with functional components to decrease front end technical debt while creating a more organized architecture, as well as improving developer experience and testing in the long term.

- Mentored teams of engineers in the open source community through Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to consistently maintain agile workflow, dynamic team communication and successful product launches while meeting established deadlines. OSLabs Solid Structure - Open Source Front-End Developer Tool Software Engineer May - Aug 2022

- Utilized SolidJS frontend library built on primitives using hooks, signals and bindings to leverage built-in store manager by caching reactive computations from the DOM and display activity logs of the application.

- Defined TypeScript interface and custom types to enforce static type error handling, maintain an organized codebase, reduce errors during development and streamline the refactoring process for future open-source contributors.

- Accomplished display and deployment utilizing D3.JS, to render SVG elements in collapsible structural and dependency graphs - enabling fine-tuned control and flexibility dependent on computation and signal updates within a SolidJS application.

- Created the product using Chrome API DevTools Panel to access data from a browser-rendered SolidJS application, providing an at-a-glance view of signal changes from an inspected application and implemented streamlined network connections using multiple port instances for app-dev tool communication. Freelance Software Engineer Jan 2020 - Mar 2022

- Implemented Javascript, HTML, and CSS to create dynamic web applications for local businesses and film industry freelancers with regular updates to company features, events and fulfilling client requirements.

- Established Node.js server to efficiently handle HTTP requests and a multitude of external API calls with modularized middleware for dynamic response control while executing asynchronous tasks against a non-relational database serving client data.

- Created authentication cookies, using Node.js dedicated to preserving user data, settings, and preferences focused on allowing for more customization of user interactions while protecting data and product integrity. Personal Projects

Lyon Shops E-commerce Platform

- Utilized React hooks and context to create a modular application that seamlessly transfers both data and user authentication from a globally accessible location and rerenders on change, while mitigating prop drilling and improving developer experience.

- Deployed GraphQL to quickly fetch extensive consumer product collections and data sets with its strongly typed design while avoiding over/under fetching problems and controlling the shape of the backend data response. TALKS // PUBLICATIONS

- Containers - Single Sprout Tech Talk - Solid Structure - A SolidJS Developer Tool (Medium, Dev.to)

- Intro to Javascript Series: Variables and Looping - Intro to Javascript Series: Functions and Objects EDUCATION

- CSU, Chico State Bachelor’s Degree - Communications

- Codesmith Software Engineering Certification

INTERESTS

Fly-Fishing, camping and overlanding, Film Photography (street and nature), Film Development and Printing, Golf, Narrative writing