Tyler Mcdowall
Senior Engineering Manager, Studio at Roblox
California, United States
Summary
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RockstarTyler Mcdowall is a senior engineering leader based in California with 15+ years building and scaling cross-platform products—from web and mobile UIs (React, React Native, Electron) to native C/C++ systems. He has led and grown global teams up to 45 engineers at companies like Twitch, Unity, and Roblox, delivering creator and multiplayer experiences, telemetry and observability, and productivity tooling. Known for shipping end-to-end products (desktop apps, live creator tools, multiplayer netcode and dedicated server support), he blends strong technical depth with talent hiring and operational rigor. Tyler has repeatedly turned early technical bets into production-scale services—helping teams win patents and adopting cloud-native architectures. He’s comfortable at the intersection of product, design, and platform, and often drives tooling and automation that amplifies developer velocity behind the scenes.
4 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (9)
unity-networking10
gameobject10
csharp10
multiplayer10
networking10
unity3d10
ui-elements3
tooltips3
unity-ui2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
Unity-Technologies/com.unity.netcode.gameobjects
Mar 2023 - Dec 2023
Netcode for GameObjects is a high-level netcode SDK that provides networking capabilities to GameObject/MonoBehaviour workflows within Unity and sits on top of underlying transport layer.
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 push in 8 months
gameobjectnetworkingunityunity-3dmultiplayer
plyoung/UIElements
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
Various scripts related to Unity UI Toolkit (UIElements).
Contributions:1 issue in 1 day
ui-elementsunity-uiunityuitoolkituielements
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