PhilDakin
Summary
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SeniorPhil Dakin is a software engineer and founder with eight years of experience building high-performance, production systems across fintech, database, and AI startups. As Co-Founder of Wayside he combines product-facing customer success with hands-on engineering to deliver an AI assistant that automates PEO workflows and integrates with enterprise systems like PrismHR and Outlook. Previously he led a quantitative engineering team at Citadel Securities, optimizing C++ pricing systems and building Python research tooling, and at Ocient he delivered petabyte-scale ingestion and access-control features that directly enabled customer wins. Phil pairs low-level systems expertise (C++, distributed loaders, FPGA/Verilog experience from research) with a pragmatic product sensibility, often operating at the intersection of engineering and customer impact. Based in New York, he brings a track record of shipping mission-critical backend infrastructure and translating complex domain requirements into deployable solutions.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (84)
python10
r10
big-data10
sql10
spark10
java10
scala10
jdbc10
audio9
nlp9
apache-spark9
language-model9
pcie9
natural-language-processing9
websocket-client8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
PhilDakin/spark-rapids
Oct 2023 - Nov 2023
Spark RAPIDS plugin - accelerate Apache Spark with GPUs
Contributions:4 reviews, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 4 days
PhilDakin/spark
Oct 2023 - Oct 2023
Apache Spark - A unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 16 days
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