Summary
Dylan Caulfield is a Staff Engineer with nearly a decade of software experience and almost four years in professional observability work at Instana by IBM, where he builds tooling to help developers understand and debug complex systems. He specializes in C# and .NET runtime instrumentation, is expanding into C++ for a cross-platform profiler, and has hands-on experience across the full stack including React front-ends, Azure/AWS cloud platforms, and Infrastructure as Code with Terraform. Dylan has improved CI/CD and testing pipelines—automating 450+ package upgrades and cutting integration test time from 4 hours to 20 minutes—demonstrating a knack for developer productivity and scalable automation. His background spans high-performance serverless systems on AWS, relational and NoSQL databases, and real-time features using SignalR, reflecting pragmatic expertise in both performance and operability. Based in Lucan, Ireland, he pairs mentor-level teamwork with a curiosity for tooling that makes developers’ lives easier, often surfacing low-level runtime insights that aren’t obvious from surface metrics alone.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science (Infrastructure), Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science (Infrastructure) at Technological University Dublin
Confey Community College