Summary
Dylan Richards is a senior software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building cloud-native platforms, DevOps pipelines, and full-stack applications across finance, manufacturing, and research environments. He has progressed from support and junior engineering roles to leading platform work at Garda Capital Partners, previously architecting EKS-based Jenkins execution and managing CI/CD tooling at 3M. His background blends systems programming, machine learning research (published IoT security work as a freshman at CMU), and applied web development—demonstrating comfort with languages from C and Go to C#, Java, and Python. He founded Udylity LLC, reflecting an entrepreneurial streak alongside corporate engineering, and has practical experience deploying solutions for enterprise and government clients. Dylan’s unusual combination of early peer-reviewed research in IoT security and production-grade DevOps expertise gives him a strong edge in building secure, scalable systems. Located in Minneapolis, he excels at translating research insights into reliable, production software.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Walled Lake Central High School
Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Central Michigan University
Study Abroad Electronic Engineering and Applied Computing, Study Abroad Electronic Engineering and Applied Computing at Waterford Institute of Technology