Summary
Dylan Shallow is a versatile software engineer and contractor based in Seattle with 11 years of experience building production-grade data and full-stack systems for startups and enterprise teams. He has driven end-to-end features at AskElephant—spanning semantic search with OpenAI embeddings, agentic data extraction, Salesforce integrations, and large-scale Firestore-to-Postgres migrations—while collaborating directly with customers to shape product outcomes. At Limelight and KPMG he delivered scalable document pipelines, ML-driven RAG workflows, and robust API and infrastructure automation using Terraform, Databricks, and cloud-native services. Dylan combines hands-on implementation (React, Node, Python, Go, SQL) with team leadership in fast-paced environments, and has a research background in secure ML training from his UW Bothell graduate work. An uncommon strength is his track record of shipping both UX-facing chat features and backend data plumbing that measurably improve LLM evaluation metrics and customer-facing reliability.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science and Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science and Software Engineering at University of Washington Bothell
English