Kyle Dickerson
Software Team Lead at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, California, United States
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Top SchoolKyle Dickerson is a pragmatic software team lead with 14 years of experience building and maintaining internal full-stack web applications at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, specializing in Python and Django. He leads iterative, user-centered development across air-gapped environments, handling everything from feature development and DB schema changes to deployment and release management. With an M.S. in Computer Science focused on machine learning and AI, he blends practical engineering and research experience—having built everything from UAV simulators in C/C++ to music-recommendation prototypes in Python. Kyle also has hands-on ops experience (Ubuntu/Apache) and a track record of mentoring and managing teams, including a prior role overseeing career development for ~17 engineers. Notably, he led a complete rewrite of legacy Grails applications into Django, demonstrating both legacy modernization chops and attention to secure, operationally constrained deployments.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate, National Security Affairs, 4.0, Graduate Certificate, National Security Affairs, 4.0 at Texas A&M University - The Bush School of Government and Public ServiceMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.85, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.85 at Brigham Young University
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Github Skills (104)
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pipfile10
fsm-library10
fmi10
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collections10
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kdickerson/automatonSimulator
Jan 2013 - Dec 2022
A website that simulates various finite state machines: DFA, NFA, PDA.
Contributions:136 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 10 years
state-machineadafinite-statenfafmi
kdickerson/homeBoard
Mar 2018 - Dec 2022
Utility for generating an "agenda" display for a Waveshare ePaper display
Contributions:193 commits, 2 PRs, 145 pushes in 4 years 10 months
epaperwaveshare
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