Dylan Byars

Full stack software engineer with experience in the finance, education, and healthcare sectors.

Work

Senior Software Engineer → Komodo Health (2/2022 - Present)

Python · AWS · Lambda · OpenSearch · Kafka · React · TypeScript

Participated in the design and implementation of a centralized search service using AWS Lambda, Kafka, OpenSearch, and Python. This service unified data access across microservices, improving application integrity and data uniformity.
Wrote comprehensive documentation and guides. These materials streamlined how developers interact with the search service, eliminating redundant search implementations.
Developed and maintained robust testing frameworks with locust and pytest. I integrated these with GitHub Actions for automated testing across multiple services, identifying performance bottlenecks and optimizing service delivery.

Senior Software Engineer → Capital One (11/2019 - 12/2021)

React · TypeScript · AWS · serverless · node · PostgreSQL · Redux · zsh · XState · git

Served as Tech Lead of a project focused on collecting complex user data related to Social Security benefits using a custom built form library. Responsibilities included: working with product managers to identify technical requirements, transforming those technical and product requirements into actionable tickets, migrating the form library from JavaScript to TypeScript, developing the feature, and working with domain experts to test the feature.
Implemented an encryption key rotation service with AWS Lambda and AWS Systems Manager.
Authored technical documentation and scripts to make daily work easier for all engineers on the team and improve the new developer onboarding experience.

Software Engineer → Learning Objects (08/2017 - 11/2019)

React · TypeScript · Angularjs · Scala · Redux · PostgreSQL · Bootstrap · selenide · git

Developed a web application used to compose and deliver educational content. The authoring environment included a user friendly version control system powered by a bespoke graph style database structure.
Incrementally migrated the client side application from Angularjs to React.
Wrote and maintained reliable automation tests allowing us to continuously deliver new features with confidence.

JavaScript Developer → MicroHealth LLC (03/2017 - 08/2017)

JavaScript · HTML · CSS · JSP

Supported an application used by Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs officials to coordinate medical care for wounded soldiers.
Created engaging, interactive features and redesigned existing UIs to improve the overall user experience and increase user productivity.

Data Collection Engineer → Leidos (10/2014 - 02/2015)

Designed, constructed, and maintained web crawlers for a project called Digital Echo.
Pioneered new techniques to improve the reusability of the code our team used throughout the project.

Account Manager → Carahsoft Technology (07/2015 - 03/2017)

Introduced technology companies offering innovative cybersecurity solutions to the federal market place, coordinated targeted marketing campaigns, and managed contract negotiations between customers and vendors.
Specialized in encryption technologies, database scanning and remediation tools, threat intelligence managers, and web application firewalls.

Substitute Teacher → Fairfax County Public Schools (12/2013 - 06/2014)

Manager + Cook + Host → Xenia’s (01/2011 - 03/2012)

Opened the restaurant and prepared food for daily service.
Helped organize employee schedules and generally maintain order around the restaurant.
Diced approximately 8 billion tomatoes.

Counselor + Medic → Stone Mountain Adventures (06/2011 - 08/2011)

Ran music workshops and sailing classes for campers.
Led sessions with fellow counselors to demonstrate basic first aid techniques increasing the staff’s ability to manage minor medical traumas and boosting confidence levels.

EMT → Harrisonburg Rescue Squad (02/2010 - 03/2011)

Rendered care to patients in distress as a crew member on the ambulance.
Delivered informative and concise reports on patient conditions and treatments extended when handing patients off to hospital staff.

James Madison University → BA English