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Tyler Bussanich

Portland, OR tbussanich@gmail.com | 503-550-2874 github.com/tbssnch | linkedin.com/in/tbssnch | tbssnch.dev

Summary

Design engineer and frontend developer with 6+ years shipping accessible, high-performance web and mobile UI, with a design-systems focus: component libraries, tokens, and patterns in code across web and native. Maintainer and contributor on an open-source web-component library used in production by Médecins Sans Frontières, the Red Cross, and UN agencies. Build AI-native — Claude Code daily — and shipped a streaming Claude API feature end to end. Care about the details you can't unsee: typography, spacing, layout, motion, micro-interactions, transitions, and information density. Background spans a 30M-visit consumer marketplace, humanitarian tooling, and solo product launches.

Skills

  • Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Go, Swift, SQL, HTML5, CSS, SASS
  • Frameworks & UI: React.js, Next.js, Vue 3, React Native, Expo, Lit / Web Components, Web Awesome, Tailwind, Vite
  • Design systems: Design tokens (CSS custom properties), Storybook, component-library authoring, theming / white-label config, WCAG accessibility
  • Design tools: Figma — implementing pixel-accurate production UI from design files
  • AI-native: Claude Code, Cursor, Anthropic SDK, streaming LLM UIs, prompt / context design
  • Testing & CI: Vitest, React Testing Library, GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines
  • Platforms: Node.js, Firebase, Google Cloud, AWS (S3, SES/SNS), Amplitude, Mapbox, Git, Jira

Experience

Hot Pepper Studios — Frontend Developer / Process Lead

Remote · February 2026 – Present

  • Lead frontend for Up to Speed, a React / React Native eLearning platform delivering CME-accredited medical training, owning UI architecture across web and mobile from one shared codebase.
  • Designed and built the white-label system: a typed, schema-validated client config layer with clone scaffolding, replacing brand values scattered across the codebase with a single token-driven source so a new client deployment spins up from config instead of code edits.
  • Established the engineering process for a fully distributed team from scratch — PR templates, code review standards, Jira/Confluence infrastructure — partnering with engineers and stakeholders across time zones.
  • Audited the React and React Native codebases, flipping a disabled strict-typing lint rule to enforced within weeks and closing CI test/lint coverage gaps, removing a standing class of type errors from the build.
  • Diagnosed and fixed a cross-platform progress-tracking bug that exposed a backend compliance gap in the CME credit-claim flow, correcting corrupted answer counters.

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team — Frontend Developer (Open Source)

Remote · September 2025 – Present

  • Maintainer and #2 contributor by commit volume on the XLSForm Builder (Vue 3, Pinia, TypeScript), open-source field-data tooling for Médecins Sans Frontières, the Red Cross, and UN agencies.
  • Contributor to HOT UI, a framework-agnostic web-component library (Lit, layered on Web Awesome) with design tokens exposed as CSS custom properties; published as an npm package and running in production across HOT's tools.
  • Built the XLSForm upload path end to end: a Go microservice exposing a pre-signed-URL API (S3/MinIO) plus a direct-to-S3 browser upload flow, and a form-tree to XLSX export pipeline (SheetJS). Currently building a drag-and-drop form canvas on a refactored Pinia store.

The Dyrt — Frontend Developer

Remote / Portland, OR · April 2019 – June 2025

  • Co-led development of an internal bookings admin portal for campground operators, delivering the core feature of a two-sided marketplace end-to-end on a consumer platform with 30M+ annual visits, built in Next.js and TypeScript.
  • Translated Figma design files into pixel-accurate, production-ready React and React Native UI, working directly with designers over a multi-year collaboration.
  • Drove design-system adoption across an 8-person frontend team, standardizing shared component patterns and removing duplicated UI logic across the Next.js web app and the React Native app.
  • Built an in-app campground navigation feature in React Native (search, routing, map UX) for a registered user base in the millions.
  • Increased conversion rate 1.5% by shipping targeted in-app marketing screens driven by Firebase Remote Config.

Projects

Rapidly prototyped, designed, and shipped to production — solo.

Terminal Portfolio — tbssnch.dev

Next.js, TypeScript, Anthropic SDK

  • Personal site where a full-viewport terminal is the entire UI, layered as progressive enhancement over server-rendered no-JS pages kept byte-in-sync.
  • Built the ask command: a public streaming answer from the Claude API, grounded in site content via a constructed system prompt, with graceful no-key degradation, per-instance rate limiting, and a client-side length guard.
  • Single-source design tokens; WCAG contrast enforced above AA by a test; a deliberate two-animation motion budget. Built with Claude Code.

VersusDB — versusdb.com

Next.js, React, Vercel

  • Designed, built, and shipped solo: content model, comparison and category pages, static generation with incremental revalidation so new entries go live without a redeploy.

OpeningDrill — App Store

Swift, SwiftUI

  • Native chess opening-repertoire trainer with a from-scratch, unit-tested chess core — move generation, FEN parsing, drill and scoring logic — shipped to the App Store.

Education

Epicodus — Full-Stack Web Development

Portland, OR · 2018

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last updated 2026-09-10