# Dylan Sena > Engineer @ Rippling Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/dylansena Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience. Currently building Data Bridge, an exciting ETL platform at Rippling. Previous CEO and Cofounder of Theia Studios and DraftBuff. Previous engineer at Amazon. University of Michigan double major in Math and Physics, minor in Computer Science. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Rippling Jan 2024 – Present ### CEO & Co-Founder @ Theia Studios Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area Founded and led a 10-person gaming studio. Oversaw all company operations and led team to ship mobile game, Icons of Theia, and achieve metrics to place game in top 10% of genre. ### CEO & Co-Founder @ DraftBuff Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley, California Led the team to ship and support the leading social fantasy esports app played by 150k+ users with a 4.7 App Store rating and top app metrics including 70% 7-week retention and 50% four-month retention. ### Software Development Engineer II @ Amazon Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Seattle, Washington Designed and implemented dozens of projects in AWS and Alexa at Amazon-scale. ### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Web Services Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Greater Seattle Area Designed and implemented dozens of projects in AWS, leading to SDE II promotion in less than two years. ### Software Developer Intern @ Ad Adapted Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Ann Arbor, Michigan Created new products and reports using PHP, JavaScript, SQL, and Cassandra to both better analyze the company's data and improve aesthetics of platform. Restructured and templated ad platform using Codeigniter's MVC architecture to reduce redundancy in code and improve efficiency. Created automated UI tests in Javascript for iOS apps to decrease developers' testing time. ### Vice President of Internal Operations, Treasurer @ Triangle Fraternity, Michigan Chapter Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Ann Arbor Managed finance and housing functions for entire organization, created and oversaw $70,000 sustainable budget for over 60 members, held weekly meetings for 11 chair members, optimized revenue through fundraising, and supervised 20 team members in fraternity functions. Implemented new transparency practices for holding chair members accountable and drafted standardized contracts detailing financial obligations for all members. ### University of Michigan REU @ University of Michigan Mathematics Department Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Ann Arbor Independently created a model for cellular diffusion in order to explore new information about stem cell research. Using model, analyzed dynamics of eight dimensional system and invented novel symmetries to simplify complex data. Collaborated with Professors Anthony Bloch and Indika Rajapakse and published paper “Mathematical Model and Analysis of Cellular Diffusion.” ### Optics in the City of Lights Physics REU @ École Normale Supérieure de Cachan Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Paris, France Fabricated and observed 2D and 3D organic microlasing cavities at a world renowned quantum and molecular photonics lab. Designed and implemented computer programs in Python and C++ to facilitate analysis of experimental data. Applied optics principles to results and examined resonant frequency shift and threshold intensity relationships. Modeled refractive coupling effects and discovered new correlations that match observed data. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science University of Michigan Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dylan-sena - Website: https://dylansena.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/dylansena JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/dylansena/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23