Dylan Wylie
Staff Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDylan Wylie is a Staff Software Engineer based in Belfast with 12 years building high-performance, large-scale backend systems and data pipelines. He has guided architecture and teams across startups and scale-ups—most recently at Grafana Labs and previously as a Principal Engineer at Cloudsmith and platform lead at SpotX—bringing practical experience with petabyte-scale analytics using Druid, Hadoop, Spark and Kafka. As a long-standing Apache Druid PMC member and committer he's contributed backend optimizations and schema/stability improvements to a flagship real-time analytics database relied on by companies like Lyft and Netflix. Dylan combines hands-on coding, code review discipline, and team leadership, and his background in physics underpins a pragmatic, measurement-driven approach to performance and reliability. An early builders’ community leader, he also helped found and run Farset Labs, a hackerspace that reflects his interest in enabling others to prototype and scale hardware and software projects.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Physics, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Physics at Queen's University BelfastA Level Maths Physics Economics, A Level Maths Physics Economics at Ballymena Academy
English
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Github Skills (13)
druid10
javas10
data-processing10
java10
sql-database9
database9
relational-databases9
databases9
data-structures8
data-structure8
performance-optimization8
apache8
testing7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
apache/druid
Apr 2018 - Sep 2020
Apache Druid: a high performance real-time analytics database.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 14 commits, 26 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Dylan contributed to the Apache Druid codebase by implementing and modifying backend functionalities. They focused on improving data processing and query performance, as evidenced by changes related to lookup optimization, the introduction of bimaps for reverse lookups, and addressing segment loading thread configuration. The user also made changes to the data schema validation and dependency updates to enhance the stability of the platform. Further, they reverted a previous change that had been made and merged in which could suggest they are performing code reviews.
apache-druiddatabasedruid
spotxchange/druid
Oct 2017 - Oct 2018
Column oriented distributed data store ideal for powering interactive applications
Contributions:20 PRs, 23 pushes, 22 branches in 1 year
idealdata-storedatabasecolumn-orienteddistributed
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