Dylan Hardison
Principal Software Engineer at Fastly
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDylan Hardison is a Principal Software Engineer in Seattle with 19 years of experience building high-performance, reliable systems across startups and major organizations like Fastly and Mozilla. He specializes in performance optimization and systems engineering—most notably rewriting a critical service in Rust to cut memory and CPU usage by 90%. A long-time advocate for practical infrastructure improvements, he has championed Zstandard compression for container registries and contributed backend enhancements to the prominent Bugzilla project. Dylan bridges hands-on engineering with pragmatic architecture, favors clear communication and proactive problem-solving, and mentors peers on shipping robust, maintainable code. His background spans languages and domains from Perl and Ruby on Rails to modern systems programming, reflecting a willingness to modernize legacy stacks and reduce operational cost.
19 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
St. Petersburg College
Github Skills (5)
bugzilla10
perl10
sql10
database-design8
mysql7
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
bugzilla/bugzilla
Apr 2014 - Nov 2022
Official repository for the Bugzilla bug tracking system. Report bugs to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Bugzilla&format=__default__ . Main website:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:51 reviews, 137 commits, 113 PRs in 8 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Dylan primarily focused on modifying the Bugzilla codebase to implement and enhance features related to user bug interactions and search functionality. Their contributions included adding functionality to record the last visit time for bugs, incorporating a pronoun expansion for the 'last_visit_ts' search field, and modifying existing code to remove last-visited entries when users remove involvement from bugs. They also addressed database indexing and schema adjustments within the Bugzilla project.
cgireportbug-trackingtrackingbugzilla
dylanwh/bugzilla
Dec 2015 - Oct 2022
just my bugzilla fork where I do weird stuff.
Contributions:119 pushes, 69 branches in 6 years 11 months
bugzilla
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