Dylan Irlbeck
Legislative Assistant
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDylan Irlbeck is a technology policy and software professional with eight years of experience bridging engineering and government, currently leading the technology and consumer protection portfolio for a senior Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee. He blends hands-on software experience—from front-end work on Draftbit’s avatar generator and microservices at Flexport—to policy impact as a TechCongress Congressional Innovation Fellow who supported both House and Senate committees. Comfortable translating technical trade-offs for policymakers, he has a track record of improving developer documentation, running engineering programs, and building user-focused tools in logistics and civic tech. An Illinois CS graduate based in Washington, D.C., Dylan was a competitive Civic Digital Fellow and often surfaces practical engineering lessons into policy recommendations. Notably, his open-source front-end contributions include SVG integration and cross-tool compatibility fixes that reflect a pragmatic eye for UX and maintainability.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (5)
css10
react10
avatar9
svg9
reasonml8
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
draftbit/avatar-generator
May 2020 - May 2020
Personas, an avatar generator by Draftbit
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 23 PRs, 43 pushes in 10 days
Contributions summary:Dylan primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the avatar generator project. Their work included the implementation of UI components, styling with CSS, and the integration of SVG assets. They also worked on the structure of the user interface by modifying the structure of the pages. Furthermore, the user performed refactoring tasks by removing usages of `ReasonReact` and also addressed HTML2Canvas compatibilities.
avatarspersonasavatar-generatorreasonmlavatar
dylanirlbeck/dylanirlbeck.com
Feb 2022 - Jan 2025
The source code for my personal website.
Contributions:9 PRs, 102 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 11 months
nextjs
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