| title | Dylan Huang |
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[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)
Technical leader and entrepreneur building startups and solving complex technical problems.
Lead Software Engineer : Fireworks AI : Feb 2025—Present
- Led the design and implementation of an ergonomic Python SDK for rapid LLM fine-tuning experiments, informed by hundreds of user conversations and real-world usage feedback (LinkedIn Post)
- Led the creation of Eval Protocol, an open-source RL framework for fine-tuning agents across any language, container, or framework (GitHub)
- Delivered talks, conducted demos, and led developer relations initiatives
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, agent, and evaluation systems for 8 months while pivoting
- Viral blog post about my experience building and shutting down the company; reached 549 points on Hacker News (Reddit) (HN)
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 building petabyte-scale apps
- Built data integration tooling for enterprises to productionize petabyte scale machine learning
- 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
- 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) - Built at age 18, reached over 210,000 users and 3.3M views in two weeks
Developer Experience Reinforcement Learning Fine-tuning LLM Inference Evals Documentation Product Management Open-source Infrastructure Tooling
M.Eng. / B.S. in Computer Engineering : Aug 2015—May 2019
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign