Dylan Griffith
Software Engineer at Mistral AI
Sydney, New South Wales, France
Summary
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Top SchoolDylan Griffith is a Principal-level software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable backend and search systems, currently working on AI and data-store problems. He led large-scale re-architectures at GitLab—scaling search to billions of documents and decomposing a monolithic Postgres deployment—while mentoring engineers and bootstrapping new teams. A pragmatic full-stack contributor, Dylan has hands-on experience across Go, Ruby on Rails, Elm and Elasticsearch and has contributed to notable open-source projects like Concourse and GitLab CE. Based in Sydney and active in both GitHub and GitLab ecosystems, he blends systems-level thinking with product-focused execution, and quietly pairs deep technical rigor with a taste for agentic AI tooling.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
The University of SydneyHSC, HSC at Newtown High School of the Performing ArtsUNSW Sydney
Github Skills (19)
ruby-rails10
continuous-integration10
rails10
continuous-delivery10
elm10
cicd10
ruby10
gitlab10
go10
pipeline10
activerecord10
back-end-development9
rspec9
front-end-development9
sql8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
gitlabhq/gitlabhq
Nov 2017 - Dec 2019
GitLab CE Mirror | Please open new issues in our issue tracker on GitLab.com
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:353 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Dylan primarily focused on improving and validating the `Ci::Runner` model within the GitLab CE repository. Their contributions included refining runner type validations, fixing a Rails bug related to `runner_id` in SQL queries, and ensuring proper validation when persisting `RunnerNamespace`. These changes reflect a focus on enhancing the stability and correctness of the CI/CD runner infrastructure within GitLab.
gitlab-apinew-issuestrackerrailsgitea
concourse/concourse
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Concourse is a container-based automation system written in Go.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 9 days
Contributions summary:Dylan contributed to the Concourse CI/CD system, focusing on both front-end and back-end aspects. Their work included changes to Elm-based front-end components, such as the Pipeline and TopBar, and also involved modifications to Go-based command-line tools related to the project's functionality. The user implemented features and addressed issues across the UI, command-line tools, and overall system behavior. Their contributions demonstrate familiarity with the core technologies and functionality of the CI/CD system.
golangcontainersdoergocdelm
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