Summary
Dylan Hurd is a versatile software engineer and technical leader with 11 years of experience building scalable data systems and consumer-facing services, currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI. He has led engineering and product efforts at Watershed, Airbnb, and Clever, architecting high-throughput pipelines in Go and Node that supported deployments impacting thousands of schools and millions of users. Dylan combines product sensibility—having served as a product manager and customer-facing technical lead—with hands-on engineering, shipping core messaging and ingestion features and automations that saved hours of manual work. His background in computational market-structure research at the University of Michigan and a minor in business give him a rare mix of quantitative modeling, systems thinking, and commercial judgment. Based in San Francisco, he excels at turning complex data flows into reliable production services and thriving in roles that bridge product, engineering, and customer needs.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Science and Engineering Minor in Business, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Science and Engineering Minor in Business at University of Michigan