Dylan Katz
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDylan Katz is a versatile software engineer with 13 years of experience building full-stack, front-end, and back-end systems across high-impact domains including healthcare, aviation, and cloud migrations. He has shipped production-critical features and reliability improvements at scale—helping Truveta maintain SOC 2 compliance and streamlining access automation that saved thousands of person-hours. At Microsoft and Alaska Airlines he improved telemetry, ETL, and customer-facing search under high traffic and tight deadlines, while consulting roles delivered analytics and performance wins for VR training and enterprise migrations. Dylan mentors junior engineers on large teams and routinely steps into ownership roles on smaller teams, prioritizing clear communication and realistic expectations. He contributes to open-source tooling (e.g., enhancing paste scanning with compression and modular postprocessing) and enjoys digging into problems until they break—or work—demonstrating a hands-on, curious approach to engineering. Based in Seattle, he stays current with industry trends and focuses on pragmatic, secure solutions that scale.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science and Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Science and Software Engineering at University of Washington
English
Stackoverflow
194reputation
15kreached
4answers
14questions
Github Skills (11)
modular-design10
base6410
python10
lzma10
documentation8
automated-refactoring6
administration6
android-firmware6
buffered-reader6
complex-numbers6
change-password6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
kevthehermit/PasteHunter
Jun 2019 - Feb 2021
Scanning pastebin with yara rules
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 74 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Dylan focused on enhancing the functionality of the pastehunter project. They added support for compressing paste contents using LZMA and base64 encoding, improving storage efficiency. Furthermore, the user refactored the code to utilize a postprocessor module for compression, demonstrating an understanding of modular design. Finally, the user updated relevant documentation for the new functionality.
yarayara-rulespastebinscanningrules
Plazmaz/awful-gitposts
Jan 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:23 commits, 18 pushes, 2 comments in 10 months
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