Summary
Neil Dahlke is a Lead Deployed Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operationalizing durable, distributed systems for enterprises, now based in San Francisco. He brings deep expertise in durable execution platforms, orchestration, and cloud infrastructure from roles at LangChain, Temporal, and HashiCorp, helping teams replace brittle cron jobs and queues with reliable, code-first workflows. Known for bridging sales engineering and technical architecture, Neil excels at guiding organizations to production with exactly-once execution, improved visibility, and developer productivity. A Chicago native with a software engineering degree from DePaul, he pairs hands-on engineering roots with customer-facing leadership and an unusual appetite for continual learning. Outside work he’s approachable and eager to discuss everything from LLMs and agents to skiing, music, and baseball—often finding practical crossovers between hobbies and systems thinking.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science - Software Engineering, BS Computer Science - Software Engineering at DePaul University
Brother Rice High School Chicago
English