Dylan Nagler
Staff Software Engineer at Block
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDylan Nagler is a Staff Software Engineer based in New York with 13 years of experience building high-impact iOS and platform systems at Square, Cash App, and Block. He has led features like activity/payment history feeds, in-app messaging, and telemetry at scale while also contributing cross-platform and backend services in Kotlin, Java, Go, and server-side stacks. A Harvard AB in Computer Science and Music, Dylan brings a rare blend of rigorous algorithmic thinking and product sensibility—evident in his open-source work on music21, where he refactored core time-signature and duration logic and implemented ABC notation parsing. He excels at shipping reliable customer-facing mobile experiences and mentoring teams as a technical leader, with a history of applying analytical rigor from academic research to production engineering.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
AB Computer Science and Music, AB Computer Science and Music at Harvard University
Github Skills (8)
computer-music10
music-theory10
python10
algorithms9
data-structure9
algorithm9
data-structures9
web-framework9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cuthbertLab/music21
Sep 2012 - Nov 2012
music21 is a Toolkit for Computational Musicology
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Dylan primarily contributed to the `music21` library, a toolkit for computational musicology, focusing on the `meter.py` and `duration.py` modules. Their commits involve refactoring code related to time signature calculations and duration handling within the context of the music21 library. The commits also involve the implementation of parsing, tokenization and processing of ABC notation. This work demonstrates involvement with core music analysis algorithms.
dtwpythonmusicologymusic21music
dnagler/redwood
Jul 2023 - Jul 2023
Multiplatform reactive UI for Android, iOS, and web using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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