Kyle Dixler
Principal Associate Application Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Dixler is a Principal Associate Application Engineer based in Chicago with nine years of experience building resilient back-end systems and developer-facing tooling. He has progressed through roles at Discover and Pulumi Corporation, contributing to cloud-native infrastructure work—most notably reliability and rate-limit handling improvements in the widely used Pulumi project. Comfortable spanning DevOps, state management, and full-stack concerns, he focuses on making services more robust and improving developer experience through clearer errors and better testing. Kyle pairs a BS in Computer Science from UIC with a track record of shipping production fixes and enhancements that quietly reduce operational pain and speed developer workflows.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Illinois Chicago
Github Skills (12)
error-handling10
go10
backend10
back-end-development10
cicd9
cli9
testing9
infrastructure-as-code8
yaml8
cloud-computing7
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
pulumi/pulumi
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language 🚀
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:600 reviews, 154 commits, 319 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily contributed to enhancing the robustness of the Pulumi service. The commits show the user implemented error handling for rate-limiting, improved the reliability of the state handling process, and fixed various issues related to resource management. The user also worked on improving the developer experience by adding more informative error messages and features to the CLI. Furthermore, there are contributions related to testing that improved code quality and reliability.
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dixler/lisp-calculator
Apr 2018 - Jan 2022
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 3 years 9 months
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