Tyler Pritchard

Tyler Pritchard

Engineer & Programmer

Artist & Musician

Tyler Pritchard
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Tyler Pritchard

"One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things."
– Henry Miller

Tyler Pritchard is a Full-Stack Engineer building web and mobile applications, with experience in devops from teaching CI/CD tools to Fortune 500 companies across the United States. Tyler is on a personal quest to perpetually acquire more knowledge and improve upon any skill, be it new or preexisting. There is always more to know and there are always ways to be better if you are willing to both listen and ask.

Tyler has most recently held the honor of training military veterans entering the civilian workforce in web development with Vets in Tech. Prior to instructing Frontend development and devops, he completed a 6 month programming bootcamp in San Francisco, CA. He has held such diverse occupations as a pretrial case anaylst, a touring musician, and a barista at Pixar Animation Studios.

Tyler holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Arizona and a certificaiton in Web Development from Galvanize in San Francisco, CA.

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Tyler Pritchard

"A 'muse' isn't some mythic inspiration... Any time you make something for someone because you think they'll like it... THAT's the muse."
– Torbin from Pixar

Tyler Pritchard is a musician and documentarian based out of Oakland, California. Tyler has performed for live audiences on vocals, mandolin, guitar, keyboards, drums, harmonica, washboard, and as an electronic DJ. After performing in several bands and running a recording studio in Tucson, AZ, Tyler moved to the Bay Area to found the folk/bluegrass group Ghost Town Gospel, where during his tenure he produced and recorded one album and several demos while leading the group to exponentially increase audience size and revenue over each preceding tour.

Tyler was a key figure in the West Oakland artist live-work warehouse endearingly named "The Deathtrap" from 2012 until its eventual shutdown in 2017. During that time he was heavily involved in organizing the community to improve diversity and inclusion, physical safety, and event planning.

Tyler shot and retains the principal footage for a documentary centered around the Deathtrap's fight for survival against the City of Oakland and the landlords who had been profiting by illegally renting out the warehouse.

Current and Past Projects

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Cafe

Cafe Ordering App

Built as a capstone project for the Galvanize Web Development immersive program, this application offers CRUD functionality to item orders in a shopping cart, processes payments utilizing the Stripe API, and can even send text messages through Twilio. Built using ReactJS, Redux, & SASS.

TREAD

TREAD: Mobile Safety App

IN PROGRESS: An exciting project which aims to revolutionize personal safety and awareness by routing users around high crime areas. Will include additional safety features incorporating social systems and Apple Watch.

Cafe

Cafe Backend - Python

Git repo for the RESTful API which queries the cafe's database for menu lists and item info. Constructed with Flask, PostgresQL and SQLAlchemy as part of a educational capstone project.

Bad Idea Realty

Bad Idea Realty

Single web page demonstrating use of CSS3 grid system and a SASS architecture.

Bad Idea Camping

Bad Idea Camping

IN PROGRESS: Frontend application for viewing from a list of campsites, leaving reviews, and contacting the Bad Idea company. This application is for instructional credit in ReactJS.

Git Chef Jenkins

Git Chef Jenkins

Automated CI/CD pipeline for bootstrapping and converging nodes on a Jenkins pipeline using Chef.io and Test Kitchen, initiated by making a push to a git repository.

Bad Idea Booking

Bad Idea Travel Booking

HTML/CSS3 page utilizing SASS preprocessing to demo flex-box.

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Home Sweet Deathtrap

Fighting for Our Community

This story follows the residents of The Deathtrap, a community of artists, entertainers and builders living in an 11 room warehouse in the heart of West Oakland's Ghost Town District. Although it is unknown who began occupying the building in the 1990's, it rose to become a landmark of the Oakland Arts scene from the early 2000's until it's dramatic closure following the tragic fire at the Ghost Ship warehouse in East Oakland. A media circus ensued, and this film follows the dauntless attempts by the residents and social family to preserve their way of life in the face of systemic opposition.

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A Lifetime of Music

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This section is still evolving... It will include a mix of selected audio recordings and live videos from the past 20 years.