Briefly:

Originally hailing from the interior of British Columbia, Tylor Sherman arrived in Vancouver to pursue open source software while working on a degree at UBC. He was introduced to the Vancouver Drupal community by attending a few of the local meetups and ended up landing a job with Raincity Studios. Recently, Tylor has been working on the Mobile Muse projects and helping to revitalize the SMS Framework module.

Factoids:

Favorite thing about living in Vancouver?

Relaxed Westcoast living and delicious restaurants.

Why Drupal?

Open source with strong, accessible community.

Beverage of choice?

Weakness for Strongbow cider.

Where/when did you first get online?

About 1998, Savona, when the internets were finally installed in rural British Columbia.

Ficitional character you’d like to have a beer with?

Yossarian from Catch 22.

Favorite techie word/acronym?

SCUBA – Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.

Fave “analog” tool?

Shovel.

Favorite artistic era/movement?

1960s Swiss typography and design, modernism, Massimo Vignelli, Erik Spiekermann.

Your best tech skill?

Secret CSS guru mixed a good dose of PHP.

Country you want to visit that you’ve never been to?

United Arab Emirates, there are a lot of big things going on there.

Where’d you go to school? Why?

I am still a student at UBC and came here because I have always wanted to live in Vancouver.

Three words of advice to younger developers?

Start breaking stuff.

A fave Drupal site?

FastCompany.com because I was amazed to be involved with such a large project.

What do you collect?

Shoes – mostly late 80s Vans, Adidas, and Nikes. Photography equipment.

One thing you would stop in the geek world?

Poor usability.

Favorite music?

Lots of early hip-hop and jazz, all the way to fresh indie and pop.