# Dylan Harness

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/dylanharness

https://dylanharness.com/

I'm a Software Engineer currently living in San Francisco - originally from Canada. I love working on full-stack web development with Node.js, React, Typescript, Python and AWS.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2024 – Present | Menlo Park, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer, AI - (Acquired by Salesforce) @ Spiff Inc
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024

### Software Engineer, Games @ Unknown
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Montreal, Quebec, Canada
> Built AWS infrastructure for a game studio as a consultant
> Used C# and Unity Engine to design and release a word game for iOS called Mr. Makes-A-word
> Used C++ to develop an IK plugin for Unreal Engine to improve animation deformations on tube-like objects

### Senior Software Engineer @ Chartboost
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
> Develop high throughput/low-latency realtime bidder in python
> Built end to end machine learning pipeline supporting any number of frameworks or model versions
> Built model-serving framework from scratch, supporting low latency feature encoding with <8ms rtt
> Built automated model training and deployment pipeline using spinnaker and AWS Sagemaker

### Full Stack Software Engineer @ Chartboost
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Full-stack Software Engineering with Python and React.

> Built scalable RESTful APIs and backends in Python/Flask
> Manage deployment using Jenkins, Travis, and AWS
> Maintained and built micro-services, monitored with Kibana, Kafka, and kinesis
> Built frontends with modern JavaScript, React + Redux
> Took full ownership of projects and feature sets

### Software Engineer, Co-founder @ King of the Stack
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Ontario, Canada
Fullstack software engineer with Node.js, React, and MongoDB

> Developed independent web development contracts 
> Built scalable backends with Node.js and MongoDB
> Made custom graphics and designs, made real with React and Redux
> Grew from 2 to 5 developers
> Managed project scope, timeline, and development team
> Mentored several non-technical students some of whom are now practicing software developers

### Software Engineer Internship @ Google
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Mountain View, California
Fullstack developer on Google Feedback, author of internal frontend library

> Wrote internal library for d3 visualizations in angular.js
> TDD and independent contribution to feedback platform web application
> Used gRPC and probufs for client-server communication
> Managed build process with blaze (externally, bazel)

### Software Developer @ IBM
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Ottawa, Canada Area
Frontend developer on Social Media Analytics team

> Implemented major application features as part of an Agile team
> Defined the team’s best practices and style guides for AngularJS
> Architected the main structure of the app defining core models, controllers, and services
> Wrote clean and effective HTML, CSS, and Javascript

### Fullstack Software Developer @ Sightline Innovation Inc
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | London, ON
Fullstack software development with Node.js, MongoDB, and Sencha ext.js

> Created resilient web applications for clients in the public sector
> Contributed to open source app-generation framework
> Dissect requirements documents into epics, stories, and tasks
> Developed realtime monitoring systems with Sencha Ext.js


## Education
### Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) in Computer Software Engineering
Western University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2017

### Diploma in Pre-Nursing Studies
Lambton College
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dhsoftware
- Website: https://dylanharness.com/

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Last updated: 2026-03-22