# Dylan Paulus

> Staff Fullstack Software Engineer @AirGarage

Location: Spokane, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/dylanpaulus

Experienced software engineer and engineering manager with a passion for growing world-class development teams.

## Work Experience
### Staff Fullstack Software Engineer @ AirGarage
Jan 2025 – Present | Spokane-Coeur d'Alene Area

### Technical Cofounder @ Unicorncat Consulting
Jan 2023 – Present | Spokane-Coeur d'Alene Area
- Run the technical side of Unicorncat
- Develop custom whitelabel chatbot solutions for education institutions
- Facilitate and design data ingestion pipelines to populate LLM knowledge bases

### Educator/Freelance Technical Writer @ Dylan Paulus
Jan 2020 – Present | Spokane-Coeur d'Alene Area

### Staff Software Engineer @ Zeal
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Spokane-Coeur d'Alene Area
- Sped up CI/CD pipelines saving developers 20min per build
- Optimized AWS and tooling costs
- Consolidated logs, traces, and user replays from separate, desperate tools into a single tool: Datadog
- Facilitated yearly pen-testing for SOC2 & bank compliance
- Led creating, deploying, and managing white-label mobile apps using React Native and Fastlane

### Senior Software Engineer @ Rover.com
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Spokane-Coeur d'Alene Area

### Engineering Manager II @ Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL)
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Spokane-Coeur d'Alene Area
- Managed 4 engineering teams through planning, developing, and deploying cloud/on-prem applications ahead of schedule
- Created bi-weekly lightning talks to break down silos and dissimulate technical experience
- Ran interviews to hire 10+ software engineers
- Fostered a partnership between Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories and Eastern Washington
University to teach software/security best practices to college students

### Development Lead Software Engineer @ Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL)
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Spokane-Coeur d'Alene Area
- Architect and developed a dynamic work instruction/CAD system which reduced maintenance and product revisions from months to hours 
- Developed a SaaS offering and developer platform tooling through standing up infrastructure, SDKs, and a micro-frontend architecture--reducing application development time
- Mentored teams around the organization in software architecture and development practices. Improved code quality and reduced sprint cycles from a month to one-to-two weeks

### Lead Software Engineer @ Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL)
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Pullman, WA
Lead project/team developing internal applications using JavaScript/Typescript, C#/.NETCore, Docker/Kubernetes, Redis, and Postgres.

### Software Engineer @ Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL)
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Pullman, Washington
Lead team developing internal applications using CSS (SASS), JavaScript (React, TypeScript, Jest, Node), C#/.NETCore, and Postgres.

### Associate Software Engineer @ Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL)
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Pullman, WA
Develop internal applications using CSS (SASS), JavaScript (React, Redux, RxJS, TypeScript, Jest, Node), C#/.NET, Kotlin (Android), and MSSql.

### Developer @ Yoh - Sony PlayStation
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Diego, CA
Develop and maintain internal tools using HTML, CSS (LESS/SASS), JavaScript (React/Redux), PHP, Scala, Python, and MySQL/Postgres that aided in both financial/planning and motion capture/graphic pipelines of video games.

- Achieved a front-end migration from jQuery to a modern React architecture
- Contributed to improving UX and design of web applications
- Aided in improving motion capture/graphics pipeline software

### Web Developer @ Eastern Washington University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Cheney, WA
Create new web applications and informational websites for Eastern Washington's Extended Campus which encompassed five departments: Running Start, Eastern Online, Continuing Education, Off Campus, and Summer Session.

- Develop Exam Manager which aided in registering for online courses through Eastern Online
- Maintain and design websites for all five departments on Extended Campus using Wordpress and ModX

### Photographer @ The Easterner
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Cheney, WA
Eastern Washington University student newspaper. Worked as a photojournalist capturing stories and sporting events.

- Capture photographs of hockey, football, tennis, and community events
- Cooperate with staff to get the best angle on a story
- Edit RAW photos using Adobe Lightroom/Photoshop


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science
Eastern Washington University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015

### Associate of Arts (AA) in General Studies
Spokane Falls Community College
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22