Dylan Martin

About Dylan Martin

If I had more time, I would have written less codeI\'m a product-minded tech lead. I build things end-to-end — from user research and system design to shipping code — and I care about solving the right problems, not just solving problems right.Professionally, I\'m a 0 -> N engineer; I love building the foundational systems upon which successful companies are built. Currently leading the feature flags team at PostHog, and I was previously founding/early engineer at Mercury, BRINC, Cercle AI, and Qualtrics.I write about software engineering and career stuff at dylanamartin.com and butternotes.substack.com.Outside work, I\'m a ski bum, rock climber, amateur powerlifter, jazz pianist, occasional DJ, aspiring polyglot, and purveyor of rare jawnz.I don’t accept connection requests unless I\'ve had a conversation with you first. Nothing personal, I just can’t keep up!

Experience

1. Lead Full Stack Engineer

   Posthog

   Oct 2024 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Engineering lead for PostHog\'s feature flag product: https://posthog.com/teams/feature-flagsScaled the product to 10x growth (from 500k ARR -> 5+MM ARR), and rewrote the flag evaluation service in Rust (21x throughput improvement, 68% cost reduction)https://posthog.com/blog/even-faster-more-reliable-flagshttps://posthog.com/blog/untangling-rayon-and-tokio

Education

• Universidad del Cine

  Film/Cinema/Video Studies

  2014 — 2014

• Whitman College

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Physics (minor in Mathematics)

  2011 — 2015

Skills

• Coffeescript
• Imovie
• Pop/Rock Piano
• Beatboxing
• Css
• Economics
• Iwork
• Javascript
• Html 5
• D3.js
• C++
• Cytoscape
• Mathematical Modeling
• Ukelele
• Vocals
• Garageband
• Team Leadership
• Mathematics
• Final Cut Pro
• Ni Labview
• Processing
• Java
• Maple
• Python
• Latex
• Leadership
• Jazz Piano
• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Excel