Tyler Erickson contributed to open source projects by enhancing both documentation quality and build system workflows. In the slowkow/quarto-web repository, Tyler improved documentation readability by correcting grammar, which clarified contributor guidance and streamlined onboarding. For emscripten-forge/recipes, Tyler developed a WebAssembly build recipe for the simplejson Python package, introducing a new recipe.yaml, build script, and validation test to support packaging Python libraries for the emscripten-wasm32 target. This work involved Python, YAML, and shell scripting, demonstrating attention to detail in documentation and a methodical approach to build system configuration, with a focus on maintainability and reproducible package management.