Tierney Cyren
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolTierney Cyren is a Node.js community leader and developer advocate with 11 years of hands-on experience driving adoption and health of core JavaScript ecosystems. A former Chairperson of the Node.js Community Committee and contributor to multiple working groups, Tierney blends open-source stewardship with practitioner-level engineering. They build developer-facing tools and front-end experiences—examples include a CLI to surface good-first-issues and UI contributions to community projects like 1x.engineer and personal npm cards. Based in New York, Tierney has previously worked with teams at Twilio and Microsoft and currently advocates for NodeSource and Node.js/Electron ecosystems. Known for pragmatic UX improvements and tooling that lowers barriers for new contributors, they pair community governance with code-level impact. Outside traditional labels they describe themselves candidly (web2 boomer, ADHD, demiboy), bringing an honest, human perspective to technical leadership.
11 years of coding experience
Associate of Science (A.S.), Communication Arts: New Media, Associate of Science (A.S.), Communication Arts: New Media at Herkimer County Community CollegeBachelor's degree (Incomplete), Communication and Information Design, Bachelor's degree (Incomplete), Communication and Information Design at SUNY Polytechnic Institute
English
Stackoverflow
51reputation
2kreached
1answer
8questions
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
npm10
css10
command-line-interface10
front-end-development10
github-api10
command-line10
html10
chalk10
nodejs10
cli10
user-interface8
interface-design8
ui-design8
user-friendly8
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
bnb/bitandbang
Oct 2018 - Nov 2022
My npm card 🤗
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 43 commits, 8 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Tierney primarily contributed to the development and customization of a personal npm card. Their work involved modifying the presentation and content displayed by the card, including updating the user's job title, social media links, and contact information. They also updated the build process to reflect changes, such as the GitHub Package Registry. The user's contributions focused on refining the display of personal branding information.
npm
cutenode/good-first-issue
Nov 2018 - Dec 2019
🖥 CLI for finding good first issues
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 261 commits, 129 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Tierney primarily focused on developing and enhancing a CLI tool for finding good first issues in various GitHub repositories. Their contributions include implementing the core functionality of the CLI, adding new features such as a "node" command, and improving the user experience by incorporating dynamic and random issue logging. The user also worked on improving the overall output format and context, adding more features related to the repository information.
clinodejsnodegood-first-issuenpx
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