Dylan Nielsen
Principal Engineer at Freshworks
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDylan Nielsen is a Principal Engineer with nine years of experience who co-founded FireHydrant and helped shape its product and engineering direction from Head of Product to engineering roles. Based in New York, he blends startup grit with enterprise engineering, now applying that experience at Freshworks to drive scalable, reliable systems. His background in interdisciplinary computing and the arts from UC San Diego informs a pragmatic, design-aware approach to product engineering and incident management. Notably, he has moved between hands-on building and product leadership, giving him a rare perspective on turning customer needs into operational platforms.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Github Skills (24)
javascript10
css10
ruby10
html10
nodejs10
web-development10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby-wrapper7
chromatic6
react6
slack-api6
slack5
api4
swagger3
react-select3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
thinkful-ei18/dmbc-client
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:97 PRs, 92 pushes, 70 branches in 29 days
thinkful-ei18/dmbc-server
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:1 release, 43 PRs, 33 pushes in 17 days
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