# Dylan Momplaisir > Product Engineer | AI/Media Infrastructure | Building tools for content Location: Queens, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/dylanmomplaisir digital creative, graduate in computer science x architectural studies, My mission? Leveraging technology to tell stories; to build bridges between bits and narratives, and creating platforms that transform the way we explore and understand our world. Let's turn data into discovery and screens into gateways to new perspectives. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ The Atlantic Jan 2021 – Present | New York, United States - Spearheaded the technical approach for Holy Week's podcast digital experience, collaborating with editorial, design, and audio teams to create a customized listening experience. Enhanced audio products site-wide through shared components and libraries. - Successfully migrated high-touch surfaces from legacy Django website to Next.js and GraphQL, resulting in faster page loads, improved site-wide security, and enhanced developer productivity. - Led the technical rearchitecture of audio to incorporate a native player, enabling better analytics, increased experimentation, and improved page performance. - Continuously improved and maintained audio infrastructure, supporting the development and launch of multiple new podcasts and audio experiences since joining the team. This work significantly improved audio platform performance, nearly doubling article play rates across the site. - Initiated and led a team-wide documentation sprint that involved auditing and refreshing existing documentation, promoting increased clarity, and reducing onboarding time for new team members. ### Software Engineering and Buisness Product Intern @ Unqork Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Greater New York City Area - Trained and mentored three new employees in agile technical configuration on our platform. - Assisted in developing demo solutions for clients in insurance, finance, and life sciences sectors, showcasing versatility across industries. - Helped maintain and develop new features for the COVID-19 meal delivery support solution for Washington, DC, impacting over 100,000 residents. - Trained and mentored three new employees in agile technical configuration on the Unqork platform, demonstrating leadership and knowledge transfer skills. - Took a lead role in interviewing and hiring over six high school apprentices, who joined two separate teams, contributing to the company's talent acquisition efforts. - Created and executed automated unit tests across the full front-end suite to detect bugs and improve code quality, enhancing overall product reliability. - Configured potential client solutions for major financial services clients, gaining exposure to high-profile projects and client-facing experiences. - Engaged in initial market research for brand expansion into new product lines, contributing to the company's strategic growth initiatives. - Balanced software development tasks with exposure to client-facing projects, gaining diverse experience in both technical and business aspects of the role. ### Summer Software Engineering Intern @ Unqork Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area Working at Unqork over three months full-time, I utilized my skills in software engineering (front-end web development), design, and IT. I was able to work on client projects, and develop internal tools for company usage. • Setup internal mobile device management software company-wide, and worked alongside CISO to integrate security policy on all company devices. • Designed customer performance metrics page • Participated in bug fixing, and purging of extraneous code. • Implemented a coding style guide, and linter onto all major coding projects. • Developed unit tests for all major front-end components • Prepared and executed demos for clients within short timeframes. • Developed templates, and modules in order to make form-building easier for internal configuration ### Digital Director @ The Amherst Student Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Amherst, MA Led the digital transformation of The Amherst Student, significantly increasing readership and modernizing the publication's technology stack and content strategy. Managed a team to implement innovative solutions across web development, content management, and social media engagement. - Managed the transition from Drupal to a modern Next.js website, incorporating machine learning for archival article retrieval. This resulted in a dramatic 733% increase in readership, growing from 1,200 to 10,000 monthly users. - Achieved exceptional 85-90% newsletter read rates across the community through data-driven content strategy and technical optimizations. - Coordinated with major internal stakeholders to iteratively improve the brand's digital presence according to evolving business needs. - Managed and trained a team of six in digital strategy, web development, and social media management, implementing agile methodologies and modern web practices. Curating a comprehensive social media strategy yielding a 75% increase in social traffic to the website. - Prepared alternative revenue models to support the newsroom's return to financial independence by Fall 2021. - Provided guidance and support to peer college newspapers in their transition towards becoming digital-first publications, establishing The Amherst Student as a leader in collegiate digital journalism. ### Interactive News Team and COVID-19 Data Scraper @ The New York Times Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | New York, United States - Created a modular conversion package for transforming FOIAs to semantically-sane documents with Javascript - Fixed, and triaged over thirty scrapers of public health departments collecting COVID-19 data - Developed a workflow for processing reader sourced content (COVID-19 health bills) into our internal document-based reporting system - Implemented a roadmap for migrating two million documents in AWS to a new platform hosted with GCP ### Software Engineering Intern @ The New York Times Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area • Collaborated with product managers and designers to implement a new player design for our podcasts landing pages • Developed a new Spotify component for articles on our three platforms (AMP, main website, and mobile) • Updated components on the front-end to web accessibility (a11y) standards • Intercepted possible wins to improve SEO, and added search-friendly metadata to our video content • Designed a newsroom-facing product with a team of six other interns visualizing version changes of articles ### Research Intern @ NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | New York, NY Interning at NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies, a research team including me were able to develop two semi-autonomous robots with the goal of providing a cheaper, more feasible means for the developing world to access this technology and utilize it for agriculture, infrastructure testing, and more. This project was presented to the CUNY Symposium, and to a smaller event for other NASA interns and staff at GISS. We were supported by the Stevens Institute of Technology, GISS, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and the New Jersey Space Grant Consortium. ### Teen Intern @ The Jewish Museum Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area Being a Teen Intern, I'm able to work with various audiences (from toddlers to developmentally challenged adults to teens my age), and provide an arts education based on the collection of the Jewish Museum. Working alongside a group of around 20 other interns, I'm always learning new teaching methods, and learning how to incorporate technology during my shifts to better allow our patrons to learn about art. Aside from regular tasks, I've collaborated with the Museum Teen Summit to plan a Teen Night for the Jewish Museum. • Create lessons plans for family programs • Facilitated the creation of a Teen Night alongside Museum Teen Summit • Contributed to the social media accounts of the Teen Program ### Editor-in-Chief @ LitMag Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area LitMag is a fifteen - person team which develops an annual literary magazine which compiles the artistic, and literary talents of the students of High School of Economics and Finance. My role in essence, is to make sure that our magazine is published, and is sold out. From managing meetings, teaching skills like Photoshop, and inDesign, to managing sub-teams, and providing SMART goals towards achieving organizational aims, I am the point person for anything LitMag-related. • Published two magazines on schedule, and under-budget, and sold-out within two days • Increased published works in magazine by 34% • Transitioned from literary piece management system to completely online • MC'ed eight poetry slams which raised money for group • Collaboratively worked with an external team of student artists, photographers, and writers to receive curated content for magazine • Expanded content from solely original literary work to critiques on new media (album reviews, museum exhibitions) ### Intern @ HMWhite Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Greater New York City Area • Developed IT solutions for re-use of old technology • Edited 3D renderings, and developed views with Photoshop and Rhino • Overhauled internal library system for finding manufacturers ### Fellow @ All Star Code Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Midtown NYC, NY All Star Code embodies three key tenets which have changed the compass of my professional life: Dare Greatly, Tell Your Story, and Accept Failure. These tenets instilled a demo oriented development process into me, and allowed me to produce much more high-quality work. In six weeks, we learned front - end web development, robotics, and Python by developing twelve projects which vary from making a Pokemon Go clone, to utilizing computer vision to develop a robot crash course. In our last two weeks, we developed final projects, and my team's final project was called Rally. Rally, a news platform dedicated to bridging the gap between knowledge and action by providing poignant news articles about real-world issues, and giving our readers resources to directly impact their local and global communities. ### Co-Founder @ VOCAP Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Greater New York City Area In a world which increasingly becoming interconnected, the need to learn other languages is only becoming greater. Alongside five other NYC high school students, we realized that the products in the foreign language market were either too clunky, too expensive, or just not fun. We wanted to revolutionize foreign language learning for the 21st century, while allowing our users to learn the intricacies of a foreign language from the comfort of their home and maintaining the same enjoyment which comes from watching your favorite shoes. With this pace of thought, we developed VOCAP, an app which allowed people to learn a different language, while watching their favorite videos, or TV shows. • Assisted with the creation of the buisness plan, and implementation of Lean Startup methodology • Created the brand identity for VOCAP • Developed an application alongside a team of six called VOCAP, which allows people to watch videos online and learn a langauge simultaneously • Connected video producers to another way to broaden their brand's outreach on our platform. • Presented pitch in front of 200+ people for startup capital and won second place ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Architectural Studies Amherst College Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 ### Economics and Entrepreneurship High School of Economics and Finance Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dmomplaisir --- Source: https://flows.cv/dylanmomplaisir JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/dylanmomplaisir/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23