Dylan Paris
Principal Software Engineer at Highspot
Edmonds, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorDylan Paris is a Principal Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience delivering scalable, data-driven platforms. At Highspot since 2019, he has led the development of fast, AWS-based systems using Clojure and Ruby, delivering millions of data points daily with robust provenance. Previously at The Rainmaker Group, he led a distributed team in building the second-generation data collection platform, emphasizing idempotence and throughput. He has guided remote teams across the US and Europe through clearly defined processes and a culture of ethical, collaborative leadership. An active open-source contributor, he has enhanced the pismo project by fixing encoding issues and improving integration. Based in Edmonds, Washington, he combines hands-on engineering with a people-first approach and a passion for immutable-by-default programming to solve real-world problems.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (7)
encode10
maintenance10
encoding10
encodings10
ruby10
utf-89
nokogiri8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
peterc/pismo
Feb 2012 - Feb 2012
Extracts machine-readable metadata and content from Web pages
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Dylan contributed primarily to bug fixes and improvements within the `pismo` repository, which focuses on extracting metadata and content from web pages. Their work included fixing encoding issues to ensure the correct handling of UTF-8 characters and preventing invalid encoding exceptions. The user also merged different branches to integrate new features and changes, demonstrating the ability to handle code integration and maintenance tasks within the project. These activities suggest a focus on maintaining the robustness and reliability of the underlying code base.
readablemetadataextractspiicreative-commons
dparis/lein-essthree
Sep 2015 - May 2020
Leiningen plugin for easy S3 project deployment and dependency resolution
Contributions:48 commits, 3 PRs, 35 pushes in 4 years 8 months
leiningenproject-deploymentdeploymentresolutionleiningen-plugin
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