Tyler Casselman

San Francisco, United States

Member since October 19, 2012

Tyler is a freelance iOS developer and architect with 8 years of experience in the mobile industry. He has experience with REST-based APIs as well as client and server Facebook integration, and has implemented tools and services with PHP and Ruby on Rails back-end technologies.

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Portfolio

Casselman Consulting
iOS
Zynga
iOS, cocos2D, UIKit, PHP
Tactel
iOS, CoreData, OpenGL, Android, Blackberry

Experience

Objective-C, 9 years
Core Data, 5 years
Core Animation, 7 years
Vim, 9 years
Git, 3 years
iOS, 7 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Xcode, Vim, Git, Rake, RVM, Zsh, RubyMine

The most amazing...

...thing I've built is FarmVille for the iPhone, which was showcased by Steve Jobs at 2010 WWDC.

Employment

iOS Engineer
Casselman Consulting
2012 - PRESENT
- Build several iOS apps for various clients. My clients are all very happy with my work.
Technologies: iOS
Senior Software Engineer
Zynga
2010 - 2012
- Full stack engineer on Cityville, Hometown, and Forestville for iPhone and iPad. Implemented several server side features in PHP that integrated with Zynga’s back-end services.
- Launched FarmVille for the iPhone, which was showcased by Steve Jobs at 2010 WWDC. Implemented several client side features that utilized UIKit as well as cocos2D. Integrated client with the existing PHP back-end. Challenges encountered included supporting an extremely large amount of content and optimizing load times.
- Sole inventor on a patent relating to business logic synchronization between client and server that is filed with the US Patent office.
Technologies: iOS, cocos2D, UIKit, PHP
Software Engineer
Tactel
2009 - 2010
- Lead developer on a map based iPhone application that utilized CoreData.
- Graphics/OpenGL ES developer for a 3D Android application.
- Developer on multiple Blackberry applications.
Technologies: iOS, CoreData, OpenGL, Android, Blackberry
Software Engineer
Airplay Network
2006 - 2009
- Designed and implemented real-time client/server mobile applications in JME.
- Converted framework and apps to BREW from JME utilizing memory management.
- Worked on GUI, Network/Protocol and Event Handling systems design and development.
- Built system design and implementation using Ant, Python and J2MEPolish.
Technologies: iOS, Objective-C, JME, Python, J2MEPolish
Software Engineer
Hudson Entertainment
2005 - 2006
- Ported applications from reference builds to new handsets in BREW.
- Converted JME applications to BREW.
Technologies: JME, BREW

Experience

Studies (Other amazing things)
Studied Real Time Interactive Simulation (Gaming) with an emphasis on computer graphics for 2 years. Also learned assembly programming for embedded systems, Unix, graphics and networking.

Skills

Languages
Objective-C, PHP, Java
Frameworks
Core Data, Ruby on Rails
Libraries/APIs
Core Audio, SQLite, Core Animation, OpenGL ES, OpenCV
Tools
Git, Vim, Zsh, RVM, RubyMine, Rake
Paradigms
REST
Platforms
iOS, Android
Storage
MySQL, PostgreSQL
Misc
Machine Learning

Education

Masters degree in Computer Science
DigiPen Institute of Technology - Washington
2004 - 2005
BA degree in Environmental Studies
University of California, Santa Cruz - California
1998 - 2002

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