Hey There!
I'm Dylan, a passionate software engineer and avid learner with a romantic relationship with entrepreneurship.
Here are my proudest achievements:
- 2023 - Wrote technical articles that reached the front page of Hacker News [Hacker News Thread]
- 2023 - Sold three different software products to real recurring customers in the same year
- 2022 - Ran a half marathon
- 2022 - Broke 100 in golf
- 2022 - Started a company to sell innovative software
- 2022 - Interviewed at YCombinator as a solo founder
- 2022 - Quit my job
- 2020 - Promoted to Senior Software Engineer nine months after starting my first job out of college at C3.ai
- 2020 - Booked round-trip flights to Hawaii for only 24,000 credit card points
- 2019 - Received a cease and desist letter for a Shopify App Store side project
- 2019 - Graduated with a B.S. and M.Eng. in Computer Engineering from UIUC in four years
- 2019 - Worked at a boba shop for a semester in college
- 2019 - Received 4 software engineering job offers from Benchling, Facebook, AppDynamics, and C3.ai before graduating
- 2019 - Created a robotic caricature artist for Senior Design
- 2018 - Authored a research paper as an undergraduate at UIUC [Paper]
- 2018 - Lead climbed for the first time outdoors at Horseshoe Canyon Ranch in Arkansas
- 2017 - Won a game of HQ Trivia using AI [Blog Post]
- 2016 - Learned how to snowboard despite suffering a severe concussion the first time I tried snowboarding
- 2016 - Hatched a Gyrados in Pokemon Go
- 2016 - Built a website with over 210,000 users, which required me to dodge IP range blocks from Niantic [Reddit Launch Thread]
- 2016 - Won an Intel-sponsored prize at Hack Illinois
- 2015 - Played two varsity sports in high school
- 2013 - Achieved Platinum rank (top 5%) in League of Legends
- 2013 - Awarded a cash prize for filmmaking
Here is what colleagues have said about me:
I have no hesitation in saying that Dylan exhibited exceptional drive, competency and leadership abilities. I wholeheartedly recommend him and would welcome the opportunity to work together again. Dylan would be a great asset for any organization!
With organizational growth and new projects, it was an easy decision for me to make Dylan the technical lead for a new engineering team in my org, working on a greenfield project at the intersection of data infrastructure and machine learning...I would without a doubt work again with Dylan, and would highly recommend him to anyone looking for a highly skilled engineering leader!