Tyler Bainbridge

Tyler Bainbridge

Software Engineer in New York City

Software Engineer, Founder of Perfectly Imperfect, Writer, DJ, and Photographer.

Work Experience

2020 — Now
New York City
  • Founded a newsletter with nearly 50,000 subscribers and guests such as Charli XCX, Julian Casablancas of The Strokes, John Cale, Ayo Edebiri, Michael Imperioli, Lena Dunham, Mac Demarco, and many more.

  • We've been profiled by The New York Times and Vanity Fair + written about in NYMag, Interview, Paper, Dazed, and more.

2020 — 2023
Remote/New York City
  • Worked on the very popular Open Source project Lexical, a next-gen Rich Text framework that powers (nearly) every text field on Facebook.com

  • I helped form the team in its early days, led projects with junior developers, architected complex low-level features that powered the framework, wrote documentation, and more.

You can find my public contributions here.
github.com/facebook/lexic…

2019 — 2020
Boston
  • Working on the Private Sales team building (React) digital checkout and chat services. I was also a member of the Front End working group and helped lead large efforts to modernize + improve legacy code.
2017 — 2019
Cambridge
  • Led the development of the web app, mobile app, chrome extension, backend API, and data pipeline. Scaled from zero users to thousands using job/message queues, microservices, and kubernetes.

  • Built Google/Outlook sync handling over 100k sync jobs per day +
    a modular GraphQL framework/toolkit for handling the batching, caching, and filtering of queries to a relational graph data store.

  • Fostered the growth of our engineers via weekly 1 on 1s, code reviews, and weekly code challenges

2016 — 2017
Boston
  • Built large features such as the job application flow, applicant profile, and site authentication.
  • Advocated for the adoption of cutting-edge (at the time in 2016...) React patterns such as higher-order components and render props which led to less duplicate code, faster development, and a stronger internal toolkit