Tyler Nickerson
Founder at Kojo Design
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTyler Nickerson is a product and brand designer turned founder and frontend engineer with 11 years of experience building learner-facing and developer-focused web products. He’s launched Kojo Design, a design-engineering subscription service now at $10k MRR, after co-founding and serving as CTO and design lead at an AI up-skilling startup where he built the platform and design system from scratch. His background spans ed-tech, consumer-facing growth work, and platform engineering at companies like Coursera, Baseten, and edX, where he migrated legacy frontends and added the first JS unit tests to a major e-commerce site. An active open-source contributor, Tyler improved cross-browser notifications and added robust testing to the popular push.js library and contributed backend features to edX’s e-commerce tooling. He combines hands-on SvelteKit/NestJS/React development with Figma-driven product design, and brings a knack for turning design systems into shipping components that scale.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Quabbin Regional High SchoolBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
English, Chinese, Korean
Github Skills (25)
javascript10
data-service10
python10
apidoc10
django10
testing10
user-authentication10
authentication10
webservice10
jscript10
api10
backend10
test-automation10
api-design9
restful-api9
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
Nickersoft/push.js
Jul 2015 - Jul 2019
The world's most versatile desktop notifications framework :earth_americas:
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Front-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:22 releases, 4 reviews, 244 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:Tyler added a comprehensive test suite and made the existing notifications tests compatible. They implemented new functionality for closing notifications and improved the existing test setup, as well as added support for specifying a service worker path, indicating a focus on improving the library's reliability and developer experience. They also made enhancements to event handling, including mobile browser events, improving cross-browser compatibility.
javascript-librarynotification-apipushjavascriptearth
openedx-unsupported/ecommerce
May 2015 - Aug 2015
(Deprecated) Service for managing edX's product catalog and handling orders for those products
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 38 PRs, 167 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily contributed to the backend of the e-commerce platform, implementing JWT authentication and adding a full name field to the user model. They also introduced a course list view with search functionality and addressed lingering issues with the view. Further contributions involved adding theming support to the course admin tool and populating the course list view via API calls using AJAX and Backbone.js.
djangoedxproduct-catalogbackend-servicehandling
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