# Dillon Powers > Engineer @ Clockwise ❇️ Location: Seattle, Washington, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/dillon In college, I started learning Mandarin from scratch. After graduation, I moved to China to start a job that had me speaking Chinese every day. Five years later, I left a great gig as a product manager at Lenovo. Why? Because I had a new language to learn: coding. These days, I'm a software engineer and volunteer tutor. Check out my personal portfolio at dillonius.com ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Clockwise Jan 2023 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States Backend software engineering, focused on cross-team platforms and infrastructure/tooling ### Senior Software Engineer @ Attentive Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York City Metropolitan Area • Led cross-functional planning and execution of new transactional email notification feature • Instrumented Java libraries to enable robust DataDog metric collection for event consumers • Organized bi-weekly technical book club to facilitate knowledge sharing across teams ### Software Engineer @ Attentive Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | New York City Metropolitan Area • Implemented workflow orchestration engine for defining and executing direct acyclic graphs • Designed and wrote multi-threaded generic delay queue for delayed message delivery using Java SpringBoot, Kinesis, and DynamoDb • Guided team migration of multiple Java services from AWS ECS to EKS kubernetes ### Software Engineering Manager @ CareDox, Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | New York City Metropolitan Area • Coordinated redesign of legacy Rails app into Elixir-based CQRS/Event Sourced architecture • Met weekly 1:1 with team members to resolve technical blockers and interpersonal issues ### Software Engineer @ CareDox, Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | New York City Metropolitan Area • Led design and development of Elixir worker queue that handles background data processing • Implemented cascading authorization scheme in Elixir Phoenix web application ### Software Engineer @ DotAlign, Inc. Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | New York City Metropolitan Area • Designed cloud-based email indexing feature that is backwards compatible with legacy code • Revamped dev-ops infrastructure to track build process in source code via Cake scripts • Increased team’s overall code quality by giving thoughtful and rigorous PR comments • Leveraged C# reflection to dynamically create types at runtime for IoC unit tests • Reshaped hiring process to assess based on skills rather than factors prone to bias • Convinced company leadership to adopt Elm as our new front-end web framework ### Teaching Fellow @ Fullstack Academy of Code Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | New York, NY • Taught Node and React to students in Fullstack's immersive web development program. • Developed JavaScript and MongoDb tools for Fullstack's proprietary learning and classroom management software ### Web Development Student @ Fullstack Academy of Code Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | New York, NY • Full-time student in Fullstack's immersive web development program ### Senior Software Product Manager @ Lenovo Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 Responsible for strategy and implementation of SW on all Lenovo Android tablets. Concept planner for Lenovo native SW experiences. Responsible for Lenovo SW roadmap. Key point of contact for 3rd-party integration and customizations. ### Software Product Manager @ Lenovo Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 Responsible for strategy and implementation of SW on all Lenovo Android tablets. Concept planner for Lenovo native SW experiences. Responsible for Lenovo SW roadmap. Key point of contact for 3rd-party integration and customizations. ### Product Manager, Android @ Lenovo Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 Managed end-to-end projects for Lenovo Mobile Business Group's key strategic partners. Found and developed new opportunities for business partnerships. Directed internal alignment to ensure long-term project fulfillment. Built and maintained relationships with key strategic partners. ### Product Manager, Android Tablets @ Lenovo Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Responsible for helping determine and implement product strategy and roadmap for Lenovo's Android tablet portfolio. Facilitated strategic communications with global sales and marketing teams, aligning cross-functional teams on product strategy. ### Communications Associate @ American Chamber of Commerce in China Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 Wrote articles and translates content for Business Now magazine. Coordinated with colleagues to revamp AmCham's social media strategy. Spearheaded webinar development for the 2013 Business Climate Survey. Contributed to the 2013 AmCham China White Paper. ### Research Assistant @ Peking University Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 Assistant to Li Ling, Professor of Economics at the China Center for Economic Research. Wrote articles on China's healthcare reforms for publication in English language academic journals. Translated and proofread original research pieces. Enrolled part-time in classes alongside Chinese peers (language of instruction: Mandarin). ### Academic Consultant @ AIC Education Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 Designed and taught original curriculum for Chinese high school students. Counseled students on-on-one, editing essays and forming strategy with clients applying to US colleges. Performed sales and customer service in Mandarin. Coordinated project investigating government regulation of high school development and curriculum standards. ## Education ### BA in cum laude, History, East Asian Studies Harvard University ### Immersive Web Development Fullstack Academy ### Iolani School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dillonpowers - Website: http://dillonius.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/dillon JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/dillon/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22