Hi, I'm Dylan.
I'm a policy staffer and technologist focused on strengthening the social safety net, especially by improving state capacity.
Most recently, I served as a TechCongress Congressional Innovation Fellow with the House Oversight & Accountability Committee under Ranking Member Jamie Raskin and the Senate Finance Committee under Chairman Ron Wyden, working on a range of issues across consumer protection, service delivery and government modernization, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and anti-corruption.
Before Congress, I worked as a software engineer at Flexport building and maintaining large backend services on which its core business (shipping goods from point A to point B, anywhere in the world) depended. Prior to Flexport, I built tools for internal documentation with the General Services Adminstration (as a Coding it Forward Civic Digital Fellow); advocated for -- and began building -- a more robust computing ethics curriculum at UIUC; and developed software for a number of Chicago startups and organizations. I received my B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).