Dylan Caponi

Director Of Data Engineering And Emerging Tech

Los Angeles, California, United States
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Dylan Caponi is a data engineering leader with 11 years of cross-disciplinary experience, currently directing Data Engineering and Emerging Tech at ATTN: after five years as a mechanical engineer in aerospace. He specializes in media analytics pipelines and has a track record of turning messy, high-volume data into product-ready assets and actionable insights. Previously he drove significant growth at Network of One by designing pipelines that generated substantial daily leads and improved asset discovery by 60%. A pragmatic full-stack engineer, Dylan also contributes to open-source tooling—extending a popular Python Twitter API wrapper to support v2 endpoints and Ads API changes. His background in hardware prototyping and embedded systems (Arduino, Raspberry Pi, sensor design) informs a practical, systems-level approach to data problems. Based in Los Angeles with a Berkeley engineering degree, he blends rigorous engineering discipline with creative prototyping and product-focused delivery.
code11 years of coding experience
job14 years of employment as a software developer
bookBS Mechanical Engineering, BS Mechanical Engineering at University of California, Berkeley
languagesSpanish
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Github Skills (8)

api-rest10
rest-api10
twitter10
api10
python10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10

Programming languages (11)

TypeScriptJavaC++CSSCRustJavaScriptGo

Github contributions (5)

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geduldig/TwitterAPI

Oct 2020 - Jul 2021

Minimal python wrapper for Twitter's REST and Streaming APIs
Role in this project:
userBack-end Developer / API Developer
Contributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 12 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Dylan primarily focused on expanding the functionality of the Twitter API wrapper by adding support for Twitter API v2 endpoints and updating the Ads API version. Their contributions include modifying the codebase to handle different API versions and adding new features such as user and tweet lookup examples. The user also added and modified constants to reflect new endpoints and updated the ads version to reflect versioning changes. They also included new examples.
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dylancaponi/TwitterAPI

Oct 2020 - Jul 2021

Minimal python wrapper for Twitter's REST and Streaming APIs
Contributions:4 PRs, 39 pushes, 7 branches in 9 months
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Dylan Caponi - Director Of Data Engineering And Emerging Tech