Kevin Dillon
Chief Executive Officer at SuperScience
Waterville Valley, New Hampshire, United States Other
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Dillon is a technology executive and founder with 11 years of hands-on engineering experience, currently serving as CEO of SuperScience while also contributing as a Senior Infrastructure Engineer at MathWorks and a software engineer at funkitron. He specializes in AR/VR human-machine interfaces, hyper-intuitive 3D GUIs, and advanced tooling for test automation, having led touch tooling, gesture emulation, and chaos-testing infrastructure at MathWorks. Kevin is an active open-source contributor and QA/test automation specialist, notably improving FuncUnit and syn test suites to support modern QUnit, pointer/touch events, and cross-browser compatibility. He blends deep systems and automation expertise with product vision—building middleware and end-user experiences to accelerate the next AR/VR revolution—and has a track record of turning legacy codebases into maintainable, turnkey solutions.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Github Skills (8)
test-framework10
javascript10
qunit10
event-handling10
test-automation10
testing10
compatible8
browser-support8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
bitovi/funcunit
Mar 2017 - May 2019
A functional test suite based on jQuery
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:4 releases, 35 commits, 15 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on adapting the `funcunit` testing framework to support QUnit 2, a major version upgrade. Their contributions involved modifying adapter files to ensure compatibility, updating unit tests, and resolving conflicts arising from the transition. They also addressed issues such as incorrect code and typos within the test suite, striving to maintain the stability and functionality of the testing infrastructure.
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bitovi/syn
Jan 2017 - Nov 2019
Standalone Synthetic Event Library
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 releases, 64 commits, 39 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to enhancing the test suite for the `syn` library, focusing on testing synthetic events. They added tests for pointer and touch events, ensuring correct event order, and improved test coverage for mouse events and right-click functionality. Furthermore, the user addressed a compatibility issue for FireFox. The user also added tests to verify the functionality of modifier keys.
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