JP Dillingham
Principal Engineer at Stealth Startup
Moline, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJP Dillingham is a Principal Engineer and seasoned software leader with a decade of experience building full-stack web applications, distributed systems, and serverless, cloud-native architectures. He combines hands-on engineering—evidenced by front-end and back-end contributions to open-source projects like a modern Soulseek client—with strategic leadership as a fractional CTO and Principal Engineer at a stealth startup. A Professional Scrum Master since 2017, JP excels at guiding teams through the full SDLC, mentoring engineers, and operationalizing continuous delivery, DevOps, and TDD practices. His background spans startups and enterprise environments (Rackspace, Lattice, Haus) and includes requirements elicitation from end users, giving him an uncommon blend of product empathy and systems-level design. Based in Moline, Illinois, he brings a pragmatic, modern approach to shipping user-focused, maintainable software.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Western Illinois University
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Github Skills (9)
javascript10
user-interface10
web-development10
react10
api-design8
database-management6
typescripts6
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
slskd/slskd
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
A modern client-server application for the Soulseek file sharing network.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:115 releases, 51 reviews, 2788 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:JP's contributions primarily focus on the front-end development aspects of the Soulseek client, making UI improvements and addressing bugs related to search functionality. They implemented and modified various React components, addressing issues in the search detail views. Additionally, the user contributed to back-end code, including changes to the server-side logic, search service, and database operations, ensuring a cohesive end-to-end experience. Their work involved code refactoring and dependencies update, focusing on a modern and user-friendly interface.
client-serverfile-sharingsoulseeksharingsoulseek-web
jpdillingham/jpdillingham.github.io
May 2016 - Sep 2020
Contributions:154 commits, 155 pushes in 4 years 4 months
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