Dylan Lott
Head Rust Engineer at Init4
Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolDylan Lott is a Head Rust Engineer with 11 years building production-grade distributed systems, blockchain tools, and developer workflows across startups and security-focused firms. He has led engineering at Init4 and previously designed end-to-end testing, automated CI/CD with ArgoCD, and atomic commit/rollback frameworks for protocol stacks at Pocket Network. His background spans Go and Rust systems engineering—shipping a distributed message queue at Meroxa, storage and P2P components at Storj, and security audits and fuzzing tooling at Least Authority—bridging secure-by-design research with hands-on implementation. Dylan’s work frequently targets high-assurance, decentralized architectures (CometBFT/Cosmos-SDK proofs of concept, smart contract integrations), and he combines that with operational experience in Kubernetes, Docker, and scalable SQL/OLAP migrations. Based in Salt Lake City, he mixes engineering leadership with a founder’s mindset from multiple startup ventures and an offbeat interest in music and coffee that often surfaces in team culture and tooling ergonomics.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MEAN Stack Development Web Development, MEAN Stack Development Web Development at Devmountain
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (135)
data-stream10
travis10
pocket10
cloud-object-storage10
network-protocol10
conduit10
socket10
archlinux10
golang10
storage10
kafka10
object-storage10
distributed-systems10
apk10
open-source10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
init4tech/builder
Nov 2024 - Apr 2025
a fairly dumb builder
Contributions:54 reviews, 18 PRs, 100 pushes in 4 months
dylanlott/edh-go
Mar 2020 - Nov 2021
EDH-Go
Contributions:28 PRs, 180 pushes, 26 branches in 1 year 8 months
golang
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