Tyler N. Ford

Summary

I'm a web developer with six years of agency experience, building Craft CMS and WordPress sites for nonprofits, universities, and public health organizations. At Firebelly Design, I'm the solo technical lead, owning every phase from discovery through architecture, build, deploy, and ongoing maintenance. My strengths are custom CMS module development, data-pipeline integration, accessibility, and front-end interaction work.

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Stanford d.school
dschool.stanford.edu

I led fullstack development on Stanford d.school's website redesign. I designed the CMS content model around entry types, field structures, and reusable components, unifying the legacy d.school site, the undergraduate program, and departmental microsites. A cron-scheduled Salesforce import pipeline pulls faculty/staff profiles and course listings, processing assets and sanitizing HTML before writing to the CMS. The atomic design system runs on a Vite build pipeline. GSAP animations and reactive UI components handle interactivity.
signupwic.com
signupwic.com

I led fullstack development on signupwic.com, a WIC benefits eligibility screening platform. I designed the CMS content model and a bilingual (English/Spanish) frontend built for accessibility. A multi-step eligibility assessment engine handles state-specific routing, income-based qualification logic, with delegated access for state WIC agencies. A clinic finder API queries 6,000+ migrated and validated clinic locations by state and distance sort.
Obsidian MCP Tools
github.com

An MCP server that runs inside Obsidian and gives AI assistants structured, heading-aware access to a vault. Replaces pointing an LLM at a raw vault with targeted operations the model calls directly. The plugin exposes 15 tools across vault CRUD, search, frontmatter and tag management, periodic notes, and Obsidian command execution.