Dylan Waits
Technical Lead at Braintree
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDylan Waits is a Technical Lead based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building web and app platforms across payments and mobile analytics. He progressed from hands-on web development to leading engineering at Braintree, blending system administration instincts with full-stack software delivery. Known for quickly mastering new technologies, he focuses on reliability, usability, and pragmatic error handling in backend services. An active open-source contributor, he improved the popular dbxcli Dropbox CLI by adding robust argument validation, new commands, and better UX for power users. Colleagues rely on him to turn brittle tools into maintainable systems while mentoring teams to ship production-ready features. His background in both operations and development gives him a practical edge when designing systems that scale and stay operable.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Santa Rosa Junior College
English, French
Github Skills (16)
command-line10
command-line-interface10
error-handling10
go10
cli10
cobra9
go-cobra9
dropbox-api9
api8
filesystem8
apidoc8
fileio8
file-operations8
go-language7
go-application7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dropbox/dbxcli
May 2016 - Aug 2016
A command line client for Dropbox built using the Go SDK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 9 PRs, 27 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Dylan primarily focused on improving the functionality and usability of the `dbxcli` command-line tool. Their contributions involved implementing argument validation and error handling for several commands like `get`, `put`, `mkdir`, and others, preventing potential panics. They also added the "account" command to display user information and added the capability to run `ls` on files, enhancing the tool's capabilities. Furthermore, they addressed usability by updating command descriptions and examples for improved user guidance.
dropboxgolanggolang-applicationsdkdropbox-api
waits/gogo
Dec 2015 - Oct 2022
Contributions:172 commits, 196 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 10 months
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