# Dion Low > Founding Engineer @Ampersand | Product Eng Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/dionlow I’m a founding engineer at Ampersand. I write about the founding engineer journey, tech industry, strategy, and positioning various types of bets. I design product experiences and ship features. I own the frontend experience and architecture. My work spans rapid prototyping, system design for evolving AI interfaces, and designing and building user and developer experience. I clicked "create repository" on github to build our dashboard 0 to 1 at Ampersand along with architecting and building our embeddable component library. I believe founding engineers should see themselves as owners and make decisions accordingly. ## Work Experience ### Founding Engineer @ Ampersand Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States - Product and Design Eng: leads prototyping and design iteration on product and developer experience - Leads architecture and technical direction of the frontend (embeddable products, headless libraries). ### Senior Software Engineer @ Rivian Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California, United States Digital Commerce - Transaction to Delivery (T2D) - Insurance Tech Lead Delivered Personal Car and Home Insurance T2D Flow Delivered Commercial Insurance ### Senior Software Engineer @ Let's Do This (YC W18) Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Full Stack Engineer: Javascript, Typescript, React, GraphQL, Apollo, MongoDB, Mapbox - Lead discovery and development of community experience to increase engagement and content via user contributions. - Lead development of community news feed. www.letsdothis.com/community (react, typescript, graphql, mongoDb) - Lead map integration to enable users to interact and discover races. www.letsdothis.com/us/running-events/10k (mapbox) - Lead discovery of giving 'high-fives' as a user engagement feature for virtual race submissions; aided in design and execution. - Reworked Legacy API Events Service to use graphQL and data loaders with significant performance gains. Let’s Do This is your go-to source for finding, reviewing and booking the best sport events across the world. Whether you’re looking for your first 5k or your 10th Ironman, we’re the best place to find your next challenge. ### User Experience Engineer @ Oracle Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Console development for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. - Create Database from Backup: Migrated large legacy code Clojurescript project to a typescript, react, redux framework with full UI test coverage using Jest/Enzyme. - Other shipped features include Multiple VNIC (networking), Object Storage, and databases, and Automated Data Warehouse(ADW): https://cloud.oracle.com/en_US/datawarehouse ### Product Manager - Multiple Alternatives Program (MAP) @ Oracle Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 New Graduate Multiple Alternatives Leadership Program: Rotated various teams within Oracle Operational PM - UI/Front-End. ### Computational Perception and Cognition Lab Researcher @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Cambridge, MA Researched and designed an iOS app to scale the collection of photographic memory research data utilizing mobile gamification. ### Cyber Security (Consulting) @ Accenture Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Greater Boston Area Help design and develop a Big Data Analytics Solution for Enterprise Threat Intelligence Hunting using Splunk. ### Program Coordinator @ MIT-SUTD Collaboration Office Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Cambridge, MA; Singapore, Singapore Brings MIT student leaders to help generate campus life and integration with the new MIT-Singapore Collaboration University SUTD. (~75 applicants) Dual Leadership Program: Organize leadership activities for students after work ours and work at a Singapore company during the day. (SUTD game Lab & JFDI startup accelerator listed separately) - Propelled program retention rate of MIT reviews from 30% approval to 90%. Program expected to grow 50% and sending 30 MIT students to Singapore and follow proposed leadership curriculum. - Plans, develops, and improves leadership workshops for the Student Leadership Initiative during academic year at MIT and the summer in Singapore University Technology and Design (SUTD). - Match students for research and internships for in Singapore - Selects students for program through interview process. ### MIT Robotics Mentor @ Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Hong Kong Design and Build a Badminton Playing Robot - Lead mentorship of MIT team and IVE ROBOCON Controls Team. - Designed and prototyped automated badminton trajectory stereovision system (Open/SimpleCV) - Teach classroom machine vision basics ### Summer Intern @ JFDI.Asia - Joyful Frog Digital Incubator Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 - Chaired JFDI/Glints sponsored Interns-only event, INTERNalize’14 s~ 50 entrepreneurs in attendance. - Integrated User Web Influence into an evaluating and selecting start-up model. - Prototyped encrypted Arduino pair as secure switch to unlock a door on wave(productivity). ### Student Ambassador (GSA) @ Google Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Cambridge, MA - Google Campus Representative - Nominated GSA Most Creative Photography/Publicity for YouTube Music Awards ### Business Development Intern @ Singapore Game Lab Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Singapore University of Technology and Design Oversaw 5 game projects - Facilitate interactions between product owners and teams - Brough marketing perspectives for each teams in their respective markets - Evaluated sustainability of the Game Innovation Programme as business model. ## Education ### S.B in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology ### Rank 1 in IB Diploma, Academic Honors, High School Diploma: Core 40 Valparaiso High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dionlow --- Source: https://flows.cv/dionlow JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/dionlow/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05