Dillon Hess
Software Engineer II at Bestow
Springdale, Arkansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDillon Hess is a Software Engineer II with 11 years of experience building high-performance, scalable front-end applications using TypeScript, React, Next.js, and modern testing tooling. He has a proven track record improving product metrics—driving a 20% lift in daily retention for an AI agent at Course Hero and helping grow a new domain to 800k MAUs in six months. Dillon specializes in web performance and architecture, having pushed web vitals from mid-50s to 95+ and raised code coverage from 46% to 89% to reduce maintenance overhead. He pairs hands-on implementation (Webpack optimizations, lazy loading, virtual lists) with cross-functional leadership, shipping features faster through shared libraries and stronger collaboration. Based in Springdale, Arkansas, he moves quickly from prototype to production, once delivering an integrated AI-powered product in just one month. Outside work he leans into mentorship and pragmatic tooling improvements that speed team delivery.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology
English
Github Skills (10)
dm7
mhealth6
react5
webserver5
javascript4
spigot1
chat1
jekyll1
bukkit1
java1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dnhess/playbot
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:2 reviews, 105 commits, 50 PRs in 2 months
DataDogsMST/web-app
Sep 2018 - Dec 2018
The combined react frontend and backend service for our senior design project.
Contributions:25 PRs, 59 pushes, 24 branches in 3 months
reactreact-frontendseniorbackendbackend-service
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