Dylan Paris
Principal Software Engineer at Highspot
Edmonds, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorDylan Paris is a Principal Software Engineer with 15+ years building high-throughput, production-grade systems that turn tedious workflows into “better Monday mornings” for teams. He specializes in Clojure and Ruby backends, Postgres/Redis data stores, and AWS-based distributed pipelines—most recently leading development of a market-intelligence platform that processes millions of data points daily and outperforms its predecessor by orders of magnitude. He has a track record of delivering idempotent, provenance-aware data pipelines with small remote teams, and brings disciplined communication and process design to enable competing with much larger rivals. Past roles include modernizing legacy Ruby systems with Clojure to remove performance bottlenecks and leading migrations of multi-terabyte Postgres deployments to the cloud. He also contributes to open-source maintenance work—fixing encoding/robustness issues in web metadata tooling—reflecting a focus on reliability as much as speed. Based in Edmonds, WA, he values ethical, inclusive leadership and prefers immutable-by-default designs that simplify reasoning about complex systems.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (6)
encode10
maintenance10
encoding10
ruby10
utf9
nokogiri8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
peterc/pismo
Feb 2012 - Feb 2012
Extracts machine-readable metadata and content from Web pages
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Dylan contributed primarily to bug fixes and improvements within the `pismo` repository, which focuses on extracting metadata and content from web pages. Their work included fixing encoding issues to ensure the correct handling of UTF-8 characters and preventing invalid encoding exceptions. The user also merged different branches to integrate new features and changes, demonstrating the ability to handle code integration and maintenance tasks within the project. These activities suggest a focus on maintaining the robustness and reliability of the underlying code base.
readablemetadataextractspiicreative-commons
dparis/lein-essthree
Sep 2015 - May 2020
Leiningen plugin for easy S3 project deployment and dependency resolution
Contributions:48 commits, 3 PRs, 35 pushes in 4 years 8 months
leiningenproject-deploymentdeploymentresolutionleiningen-plugin
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