Tyler Dane,
Software Engineer

Work Experience

Software Engineer

SIMPLE SOFTWARE

SEP 2025 – PRESENT

  • Create system design case studies and share on Substack & YouTube.
  • Emphasis on architecture and design patterns.

Software Engineer

Costco

OCT 2023 – SEP 2025

  • Led a team of 20 frontend engineers rebuilding Costco's web app from scratch.
  • Write lots of code, review even more, create frontend architecture, review designs, run demos in front of 60+ attendees, and try not to break things.

Founder

Compass Calendar

JUL 2019 – PRESENT

  • Build Compass Calendar, the keyboard calendar

Software Engineer

Swoop Search

JUN 2017 – OCT 2018

  • Scaled data size limits from 500 MB to over 1 TB by implementing a microservice architecture and parallelizing services.
  • Converted codebase from legacy Java to Python.