Dylan Young
East Coast native, living in the Pacific Northwest. When I'm not programming, you'll find me reading, going to the gym, trying to rock climb, or learning how to DJ.
About
From reselling sneakers to programming. I'm a software engineer who's always looking for something new to learn. Currently a Backend Engineer at Snapchat.
Work Experience
Mobile App SDK - Synchrony Financial
iOS Engineer
- Led development of the Spend Management feature, architecting reusable components, reactive data bindings, and modular UI logic to streamline implementation across consuming teams
- Maintaining a Swift SDK leveraging async/await and structured concurrency to standardize API ingestion for MySynchrony, CareCredit, and SyPi, simplifying backend requests across Synchrony’s iOS apps
- Explored App Clips adoption for the Synchrony Marketplace Apply feature, defining the MVVM architecture to standardize screen development and promote UI composability for scalable, maintainable screens
CareCredit - Synchrony Financial
iOS Intern
- Spearheaded the migration of legacy SDKs to a modular micro-SDK architecture, redesigning data models to seamlessly integrate new structures, resulting in enhanced scalability and ensured backward compatibility
- Implemented Airship embedded views by developing a centralized singleton instance in Swift, improving UI consistency, application performance, and code reusability across various features
MySynchrony - Synchrony Financial
iOS Intern
- Conceptualized, designed, and delivered a proof-of-concept (PoC) feature enabling customers to pay off promotional balances, projected to significantly reduce call center workload
- Mentored new engineers and interns in Swift programming best practices, fostering a collaborative team environment and accelerating the onboarding process
- Developed and implemented reusable UI components in SwiftUI, resulting in a 20% acceleration in feature deployment timelines and ensuring consistent UI/UX
- Led the strategic deprecation of legacy code by authoring detailed agile user stories, significantly improving code maintainability and reducing technical debt
City of Norwalk
IT Intern
- Integrated third-party automation services to streamline workflows, reducing manual effort and significantly increasing overall team productivity
- Refined internal backend logic by implementing more efficient data structures, improving the end-user experience
- Assisted in maintaining a .NET-driven meeting management solution, ensuring reliability, scalability, and a positive user experience
UConn School Of Fine Arts
Student IT Assistant
- Collaborated with faculty and students to create detailed documentation for resolving network, software, and hardware issues
- Efficiently prioritized and resolved technical issues, minimizing downtime and improving support response times
- Reviewed and optimized frontend code to maintain website usability and content integrity
Education
University of Connecticut
Skills
Side Projects
Recipe iOS App
Designed and developed an engaging iOS application that delivers a seamless user experience through intuitive swiping functionality to like or dislike dynamically fetched recipes from a third-party API. Leveraged Swift and MVVM architecture to ensure modular, scalable, and maintainable code, while utilizing Async/Await for efficient asynchronous data handling, enhancing app performance and responsiveness.
Long/Short Perpetual Strategy
Developed a Long/Short Perpetual Strategy using the Hyperliquid SDK, implementing a systematic approach to identify and trade assets based on performance metrics and volatility analysis. Backtested the strategy and deployed it on a CI/CD pipeline to automatically execute trades given risk parameters.
Delta-Neutral Bot
Engineered a market-neutral trading bot leveraging Hyperliquid perpetuals and Solana's Jupiter DEX for spot liquidity, effectively mitigating directional risk and optimizing funding income.
Multi-Card Expense Formatter
Automated financial tracking by consolidating transaction data from Capital One, American Express, and Robinhood into a categorized and summarized Excel dashboard, significantly simplifying expense management
Crypto DeFi Bot
Built and deployed Discord bot hosted on Heroku, utilizing APIs to efficiently visualize Total Value Locked(TVL), real-time cryptocurrency prices, and revenue streams, providing valuable analytics to community users
Twitter/X Monitor
This project uses an algorithm to monitor Twitter users using Twitter's API. When a user tweets, the data is queried and sent to a Discord webhook.