Dylan Lloyd

Software Engineer

dylan@disinclined.org

https://disinclined.org

(917) - 853 - 4726

Professional Experience

Tower Research Capital 2018

- 2023

Liaison to FPGA development from DevTools Compute Development Platform. Sole

developer of specialized dependency management system for FPGA design. Owner-

ship of end to end CI/CD pipelines for hardware simulation on Kubernetes. Man-

aged Kubernetes clusters across bare me tal colocated datacenters. Developed Python

applications for resourc e management, automated image creation and prod uc tion de-

ployment. Managed private GitLab, Gerrit and Gitolite instances for ˜30+ trade

teams. Ownership of highly available geo-distributed Artifactory instances with ˜40

terrabytes of binary and package data. Implemented comprehensive monitoring and

backup strategies for critical servic es .

Addepar 2016 - 2018 Highly available internal toolchain development for machine & environment provi-

sioning, aut he ntication & authorization within an auditable ﬁnancial platform repre-

senting $500 billion assets under management. Developed Python Flask app lic ations

for internal core workﬂows. Developed Python utilities to parse and pro ce ss ﬁnancial

data injested for product. Managed compute resources on AWS.

Pho e ni x Age / Kabam 2013

- 2016

Technical lead of scalable backend infrastructure, and full stack feature development

for top grossing, massively multiplayer mobile games of 15+ million users. Developed

Chef c ookbooks for automated deployment and scaling of production game environ-

ments on Google Cloud.

DuckDuckGo 2011 - 2013 Developed and managed open source repositories hosted on GitHub, responsible for

responding to pull requests. Added features to and maintained the DuckPAN plat-

form. Implemented business driven integrations with companies such as ESPN and

Amazon. Wrote internal services and development tools, servicing ˜4 million daily

users. Managed compute resources on AWS.

Technical Skills

Languages Python, Perl, Ruby, PHP, Objective C, C, C++, J avascript, Java, Shell, SQL, Haskell

Softwar e Packages NGiNX, Apache, MySQL, Mar iaD B, Postgres, Vertica, Couchbase, Redis, Mem-

cached, Nagios, Sensu, Ganglia, Wavefront, Sumologic, BIND, ACME, Postﬁx, Dove-

cot, Chef, Gitolite, Gitlab, Gerri t, Salt, Docker, Conda, Kubernetes, Artifactory,

Vault, Grafana, Pr ometh e us

Personal Projects

nasm-demonstration 64 and 32 bit Netwide Assembly demonstration, in the form of a needlessly compli-

cated hello world featuring a branch, macro and function.

p owermate I wrote this Haskell program to control Alsa, MPD and Pianobar with a Griﬃn

Powermate, binding arbitrary shell scripts to physical gestures. It is available in the

Arch User Repository.

matrixnullspace.com A web application written in Python to calculate the null space, eigenvalues and

determinant of a given matrix.