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Dylan Huang |
[dylanhuang.com](https://dylanhuang.com) | [dylan.p.huang@gmail.com](mailto:dylan.p.huang@gmail.com) | [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dphuang2/) | [GitHub](https://github.com/dphuang2)
Software engineer and entrepreneur with experience founding startups, leading teams, and solving challenging technical problems. Currently interested in generative AI.
Co-Founder : Konfig : Jul 2022—Dec 2024
- Built and sold SDKs and Documentation-as-a-Service to API-first companies, generating $65K total revenue with 83% NRR from 11 customers
- Authored viral technical content reaching 31K readers and front page of Hacker News
- Built RAG, agentic workflow, and evaluation systems for production-ready AI medical writer and API Guide writer as part of pivots
Senior Software Engineer : C3.ai : Aug 2019—Mar 2022
- Led 5-engineer team building data exploration framework on Pandas API and built proprietary DSL for petabyte-scale apps
- Reduced CI pipeline runtime by 50% through parallelization and built AST-based Java migration framework
- Conducted 160+ technical interviews, helping grow engineering organization from 5 to 20 engineers
Software Engineering Intern : AppDynamics : May 2018—Aug 2018
- Implemented cross-browser JavaScript execution time measurement and user session replay system
Research Assistant : UIUC : Aug 2015—Aug 2018
- Developed web applications for HCI/social media research, resulting in published paper
- Built sentiment analysis system for Twitter data and led student research cohort
- dylanhuang.com - Features technical blog posts focused on software engineering and system design with comprehensive list of achievements and testimonials from engineering colleagues
- Pokemon Go App (GitHub) - Reached over 210,000 users and 3.3M views in two weeks
- Shopify App (Reddit Launch Post) - Built session replay analytics tool that captures and visualizes customer browsing behavior on Shopify stores, generating revenue from day one after launch
- HQTrivia Solver (Blog Post) - Built automated solver for HQ Trivia game using NLP and web scraping techniques to analyze questions and search results to determine correct answers (pre-LLM era)
Python TypeScript Java OpenAPI GraphQL Django Rails Next.js React CSS TailwindCSS GitHub Actions Redis Postgres Docker System Design Remote Code Execution Code Generation Prompt Engineering Agentic Workflows LLM Observability LLM Evals
M.Eng. / B.S. in Computer Engineering : Aug 2015—May 2019
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign