hi, i'm dillion 👋Software Engineer turned Entrepreneur. I love building things and helping people. Very active on Twitter.
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About

At the end of 2022, I quit my job as a software engineer to go fulltime into building and scaling my own SaaS businesses. In the past, I pursued a double degree in computer science and business, interned at big tech companies in Silicon Valley, and competed in over 21 hackathons for fun. I also had the pleasure of being a part of the first ever in-person cohort of buildspace called buildspace sf1.

Work Experience

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Atomic Finance

May 2021 - Oct 2022
Bitcoin Protocol Engineer
Implemented the Bitcoin discreet log contract (DLC) protocol specifications as an open source Typescript SDK. Dockerized all microservices and setup production kubernetes cluster. Architected a data lake using AWS S3 and Athena for historical backtesting of bitcoin trading strategies. Built a mobile app using react native and typescript.
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Shopify

January 2021 - April 2021
Software Engineer
Implemented a custom Kubernetes controller in Go to automate the deployment of MySQL and ProxySQL custom resources in order to enable 2,000+ internal developers to instantly deploy their app databases to production. Wrote several scripts in Go to automate MySQL database failovers while maintaining master-slave replication topologies and keeping Zookeeper nodes consistent with changes.
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Nvidia

January 2020 - April 2020
Software Engineer
Architected and wrote the entire MVP of the GeForce Now Cloud Gaming internal admin and A/B testing dashboard using React, Redux, TypeScript, and Python.
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Splunk

January 2019 - April 2019
Software Engineer
Co-developed a prototype iOS app with another intern in Swift for the new Splunk Phantom security orchestration product (later publicly demoed and launched at .conf annual conference in Las Vegas). Implemented a realtime service for the iOS app in Django (Python) and C++; serialized data using protobufs transmitted over gRPC resulting in an approximate 500% increase in data throughput.
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Lime

January 2018 - April 2018
Software Engineer
Proposed and implemented an internal ruby API for sending/receiving commands to scooters over LTE networks. Developed a fully automated bike firmware update system to handle asynchronous firmware updates of over 100,000+ scooters worldwide, and provide progress reports in real-time using React, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL and AWS EC2 saving hundreds of developer hours.
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Mitre Media

May 2017 - August 2017
Software Engineer
Designed and implemented a robust password encryption and browser cookie storage system in Ruby on Rails. Leveraged the Yahoo finance API to develop the dividend.com equity screener

Education

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Buildspace

2023 - 2024
s3, s4, sf1, s5
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University of Waterloo

2016 - 2021
Bachelor's Degree of Computer Science (BCS)
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Wilfrid Laurier University

2016 - 2021
Bachelor's Degree of Business Administration (BBA)
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International Baccalaureate

2012 - 2016
IB Diploma
My Projects

Check out my latest work

I've worked on a variety of projects, from simple websites to complex web applications. Here are a few of my favorites.

Chat Collect

With the release of the OpenAI GPT Store, I decided to build a SaaS which allows users to collect email addresses from their GPT users. This is a great way to build an audience and monetize your GPT API usage.

Next.js
Typescript
PostgreSQL
Prisma
TailwindCSS
Stripe
Shadcn UI
Magic UI
Website

Magic UI

Designed, developed and sold animated UI components for developers.

Next.js
Typescript
PostgreSQL
Prisma
TailwindCSS
Stripe
Shadcn UI
Magic UI
Website
Source

llm.report

Developed an open-source logging and analytics platform for OpenAI: Log your ChatGPT API requests, analyze costs, and improve your prompts.

Next.js
Typescript
PostgreSQL
Prisma
TailwindCSS
Shadcn UI
Magic UI
Stripe
Cloudflare Workers
Website
Source

Automatic Chat

Developed an AI Customer Support Chatbot which automatically responds to customer support tickets using the latest GPT models.

Next.js
Typescript
PostgreSQL
Prisma
TailwindCSS
Shadcn UI
Magic UI
Stripe
Cloudflare Workers
Website
Contact

Get in Touch

Want to chat? Just shoot me a dm with a direct question on twitter and I'll respond whenever I can. I will ignore all soliciting.

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