Hello, I’m Tyler Pearson and I’m a sofware engineer living in beautiful San Francisco, California. I like code, politics, startups, mountain bikes, and Taco Tuesday.
About me
I started with web development back at the end of college at West Virginia University when I realized I had no interest in pursuing what I'd majored in, accounting. (Fun fact: I've never once regreted not doing accounting.)
Previously I worked for a few years on the digital-side of political campaigns from local city council races up to Congress – initially with my own company, Blue Peak Digital, and later with Chapel Hill-based New Media Campaigns. Political campaigns are the only other thing I've encountered that match the excitement of startups.
Wanting to try something new, I sold virtually everything I owned a few years ago, moved out to San Francisco, and joined a startup.
When I'm not coding, I enjoy riding my bikes, reading, and drinking lattes in North Beach.
Work
Software Engineer - (current) Le Tote ("Netflix for women's fashion") is a fast growing, YC-backed subscription company for women's fashion. Currently I'm working with Elixir, Phoenix, and React to build cutting-edge warehouse software that integrates with RFID hardware devices running embedded Elixir/Erlang. Additionally, I handle a lot of our DevOps needs and work on maintaining and improving our infrastructure that runs on AWS.
CTO - (current) Sweeble is a photo and video app for iOS and Android we launched in June. The backend is combination of Node on Parse and Rails on Heroku with PostgreSQL. The web view uses some fun tech like WebSockets and React. Since launch, Sweeble has trended in the App Store on multiple occasions.
CTO - At Bubblews, I handled the tech-side of a website that serves more than 250 million page views and 30 million uniques per month. Bubblews has been featured by Mashable as one of the top ten social networks on the rise with apps like Tinder, Vine, Medium, and Snapchat. During the beginning of 2015 we rebuilt the site from the ground up with Ruby on Rails on PostgreSQL and Redis to better handle growth. Previously it was PHP. Here is an in-depth writeup on everything we did.
Web developer and designer - At New Media Campaigns, I worked on the front-end and back-end with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, Rails, Wordpress, and Hifi for political campaigns, non-profits, and businesses. I also designed websites, primarily for political campaigns. It was a lot of fun.
Launching (and open sourcing) a microsite with 20,000 users in the first week ➞
How to easily integrate machine learning with Ruby on Rails to fight spam ➞
Using legislative data to calculate the effectiveness of state lawmakers ➞
How to automate regular Parse backups with Capybara ➞
Setting up accurate and scalable view count tracking with browser fingerprinting, Redis, and Rails ➞
Building a JSON API for California state code ➞
How we moved a half million user site from the Stone Age to the present with a rebuild ➞
Analyzing who Congress follows on Twitter ➞
Analyzing the most common words in bios of Twitter users ➞
The most commonly followed Twitter accounts by various groups of people ➞
Open Source
I try to push as much code as I can to Github in the hope that someone else will find it useful. Here are some a few of the projects currently up there: