Craner Labs Latest: Heirbloom

Hi, I'm Tyson.

I'm a self-taught full stack software engineer with a soft spot for systems design and architecture. I build enterprise software for a living. On the side I co-founded Truck Genie and built its product, and Craner Labs is where the rest lives: games, mostly, plus whatever experiment I can't stop thinking about.

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Latest project

Heirbloom

A cozy garden game about breeding flowers with real genes. Cross two plants, sow the seed and find out which traits it inherited. Every flower below came out of the game's own genetics: stripes, blotches and frills are all genes you can breed for.

Type
Mobile game
Status
In development
Platforms
Android first, then iOS
Visit heirbloomgame.com
Heirbloom: three potted flowers on a sunny windowsill, a striped sunflower, a red dahlia and a purple pansy, with the garden out the window.
Heirbloom · windowsill

Co-founder

Truck Genie

Fleet maintenance software for small trucking companies: digital inspections, work orders and preventive maintenance for fleets of 1 to 50 trucks, so nobody runs a fleet on paper. It's a small startup with three co-founders, and I'm the tech side: I lead product and engineering and built the product end to end, from the web app and the mobile app for drivers and mechanics to the API, the database and the pipelines that ship them.

Type
SaaS for trucking fleets
Role
Co-founder, product and tech
Platforms
Web, iOS and Android
Visit truckgenie.app
Truck Genie's web dashboard for a demo fleet: active units, users and work orders, with inspection issues and maintenance due flagged. Truck Genie's mobile app: a driver's inspection checklist with an oil leak marked as an issue.
Truck Genie · web and mobile

Experience

Self-taught, since 2015.

I taught myself to code in 2015 and haven't stopped since. Full stack means all of it to me: the database, the APIs, the screen you click on and the pipeline that ships it. Most of my work has been enterprise systems, with a few detours worth mentioning.

  1. 2024 – now

    An enterprise platform, from scratch

    Lead developer. I architected and built the whole thing: a Blazor front end, .NET REST APIs, integrations with outside SaaS providers, reporting and ETL pipelines, and CI/CD from dev through staging to production.

  2. 2018 – 2024

    Cameras that could see

    Technical lead on smart cameras running computer vision on the device (TensorFlow and OpenCV), plus the machine learning pipeline, an in-house platform for managing a fleet of IoT devices, and the web app on top.

  3. 2019 – 2024

    Full stack, wherever it was needed

    C# and .NET, React, Angular, Node, Java, Python, SQL and AWS serverless, across several industries, some with strict rules about the data.

  4. 2015 – 2019

    Teaching myself

    No CS degree. Tutorials, side projects and a lot of broken builds, until people started paying me to write software.