Tyler Bussanich

Design engineer and frontend developer in Portland, OR, with 6+ years shipping accessible, high-performance UI across web and native mobile. I work design-systems-first — component libraries, tokens, and patterns in code, from the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team’s XLSForm Builder interface to the token system behind this site. I build AI-native interfaces too: this site’s ask command is a streaming Claude API feature I shipped end to end. The throughline is making dense technical UI feel simple.

Currently leading frontend and engineering process at Hot Pepper Studios, with open source for the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team on the side.

This page is the plain baseline — every route has one. The terminal is a full-viewport shell you can navigate, with an ask command that answers questions about my work from the Claude API.

work

• Component Doc Generator

  Paste or pick a React component — Claude writes its props docs, usage snippets, and description next to a live preview.

• OpeningDrill

  A chess opening-repertoire trainer, shipped to the App Store.

• tbssnch.dev

  This site: a terminal-as-UI portfolio with a full no-JS semantic baseline underneath.

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