Skyler Lister Aley

Software Engineer

📍 La Habra, California

Software engineer with nearly 8 years at Curtail, Inc building enterprise software. Started as a computer technician and worked my way up while earning a CS degree from Cal State Fullerton.

When I'm not coding for work, I build indie games and developer tools under the Penguinboi Software banner. I believe in creating software that's both useful and fun.

Skills

Languages

JavaScript TypeScript Python SQL C++ HTML/CSS Dart Java PHP

Frameworks

Next.js 15 React 19 React Native Vue.js Node.js AngularJS Flutter jQuery Phaser Express.js Vite Pygame Flame Framer Motion Angular Material

Styling

Tailwind CSS v4 CSS Custom Properties SASS Responsive Design PostCSS

CMS & Content

Payload CMS 3.x Lexical Rich Text Editor Headless CMS Draft/Preview/Publish

Databases

PostgreSQL MySQL SQLite Drizzle ORM

Cloud

AWS Amplify Amazon RDS Amazon S3 Amazon CloudFront Amazon Route 53 AWS CodeCommit AWS IAM Microsoft Azure

DevOps & CI/CD

Docker Git GitLab Jenkins Linux/Unix CI/CD Pipelines Infrastructure as Code Containerization

Testing

Vitest React Testing Library Test-Driven Development Unit Testing Test Cases Jest Test Automation

APIs

REST APIs Resend (Email) Model Context Protocol SendGrid Stripe WebSockets OAuth

Architecture

Server-Side Rendering Incremental Static Regeneration On-demand Revalidation WebAssembly Server Side Programming Object-Oriented Programming

Infrastructure

Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) Routing Network Architecture Storage Virtualization Network Engineering VMware VMware vSphere Virtualization Operating Systems

Design

User Experience Design User Interface Design User Experience (UX)

Focus Areas

Web Apps Cybersecurity App Security Technical Support SEO Google Analytics Computer Science Network Security Information Security Front-End Development

AI Tools

Claude Code GitHub Copilot Agentic Coding Prompt Engineering Google Gemini API OpenAI API

Experience

Software Engineer

Curtail, Inc

Sep 2025 - Present

Building enterprise software solutions.

Associate Software Engineer

Curtail, Inc

Apr 2018 - Sep 2025

Developed and maintained web applications using JavaScript, AngularJS, Node.js, and PostgreSQL.

Software Engineering Intern

Raytheon

Internship

Gained experience in defense industry software development.

Computer Technician

Yorba Linda Feed

Jul 2005 - Apr 2018

Managed IT infrastructure while pursuing computer science degree.

Education

B.S. Computer Science

California State University, Fullerton

2014 - 2017