Hi!

I’m Tyler J. Rankin!

I’m 30 years old and am married to my beautiful wife, AnnaLisa.

I’ve been programming since I was a teenager. Making video games in Game Maker and Unity.

When my senior year of college came around, I realized I loved programming! I didn’t consider that any of the skills I was learning in Unity could be used in a career. I took an elective course in game development where I learned a new programming language: ActionScript. Yeah, I didn’t care it was a dying language; I just wanted to make video games on my school schedule. I received incredible praise from my peers and professor. During that semester I realized I had two options. Stay in school for a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science for two more years, or attempt to build a self-taught programming career with a background in business.

So I strived to obtain a career as a self-taught programmer.

Now I’ve been working within the CRM Platform landscape working for enterprise companies for over 6 years! I love tackling problems that force me to grow in my abilities to analyze and resolve problems. I still love learning new things and challenging my technical skills to create better code.

Hobbies:

• Playing Bullet Chess and getting destroyed by strangers online.
• Hiking and going on cool adventures.
• Volunteering and engaging with middle school kids within my local church.
• Cooking popcorn and watching Friends with my wife on our couch.