Dylan Reichstadt Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, Us

Currently developing and maintaining Twitch's Delivery Infrastructure, including Content Delivery Networks that serve over 30 million daily users for the main desktop experience (www.twitch.tv), mobile experiences (m.twitch.tv), and living room applications (Xbox, PS5, Apple TV, etc). These also include static assets, images, and dozens more.Additionally, I work on the origin web servers for the Twitch frontend, which is globally scaled throughout dozens of data centers and has over 99.99% availability despite frequent denial of service attempts. Furthermore, our team maintains tools used by developers to help deliver the website, such as canary release build management, dynamic staging environments, and web application settings allowing for experiments.Responsibilities include:- Developing Content Delivery Networks (CDN) for dozens of Twitch origins, utilizing both Fastly and Cloudfront to serve billions of requests for 30 million daily users- Maintaining docker infrastructure for origin web application servers, such as twitch.tv and m.twitch.tv (the mobile experience), as well as living room applications- Operating Nginx and Varnish applications to cache and serve assets (js, css, images, video) from S3- On Call for critical Twitch services and able to investigate and triage as necessary- Mentor other engineers as part of the Mentorship ProgramSkills used:Golang, VCL, Fastly, Cloudfront, ECS, Docker, EC2, Elasticache, OpenSearch, CDK, Route53, Terraform, Teamcity, Pagerduty, Grafana

San Francisco, California, Us

While working on Twitch's Quality Engineering team, I built and maintained an internal Cross Browser Test System, running over 90,000 test sessions a day for various teams. It supports Windows, macOS and Linux machines, and is written in Go. Framework teams across our organization remotely execute their tests across our platforms that pertain to our user base.I built a Ruby on Rails application to help Twitch scale its test automation framework by managing Twitch user accounts to allow for parallel use without conflict.I've also designed an automation test framework, built on top of Selenium, which was used for the entire frontend at Twitch.Responsibilities included:- Developing a cross browser system to distribute tests in parallel execution using Go, running over 90,000 Daily Test Sessions- Provisioning machines to install necessary browsers & software using PowerShell- Designed a front end Rails dashboard for test management and statistic visualization in Ruby on Rails- Developed automated test plans utilizing Capybara, Selenium and RSpec.- Investigated live production failures and triaged to on-call engineersFamiliar with:Golang, Powershell, VirtualBox, Packer, Docker, Terraform, Amazon EC2, Jenkins, Capybara, Ruby, Javascript, Bash, C, C#, Rails, Rspec, Selenium, Appium, Pagerduty, Statsd, Grafana, Puppet, Selenium Grid, Elastic Beanstalk, Route53Other relevant titles:Software Engineer, Cloud InfrastructureSoftware Engineer, Tools & AutomationAutomation Engineer

San Francisco, California, Us

As a Quality Assurance Engineer with Twitch, I worked with our engineering and product teams to identify and limit the amount of website bugs that reach our user base. This takes planning, precision, organization and patience.My experience includes:- Web, iOS and Android testing (including Apple TV and Chromecast support)- Working with engineers to ensure their code is both functional and consistent, including the execution of smoke and regression testing- Writing and Execution of Test Plans- Providing feedback on Product Specs- Collaborating with community to address and ticket website bugs and problems

San Francisco, California, Us

Wearing multiple hats by managing the Justin.tv administrator team, along with community outreach and support services.* Managed a team of ten to fifteen volunteers who help to remove content that infringes the Justin.tv Terms of Service* Selected and interviewed administrator candidates* Organized and led team meetings* Managed Justin.tv support services and help desk* Launched and managed a new support center bringing multiple support teams into one system* Drafted support guides and tutorials* Developed a Twitter support platform with more than 6,000 followers* Created a community driven broadcast to receive feedback and provide support* Quality Assurance Testing on iOS and Web Platform* Ticketed website bugs and user problems* Worked with Island Records and Universal Music to bring multiple artists on Justin.tv, including Cimorelli and Mark Hoppus from Blink182* Produced events for Lean Startup Circle and Youth Rock Redux* Assisted high profile companies such as Mazda in setting up live streaming solutions* Managed promotion schedule time slots of broadcasters for Frontpage and Directory Featured Spotlight video playerFamiliar products include: Zendesk, UserVoice, Assembla, Jira, MixPanel, TeamViewer, vBulletinAbout Justin.tv:Justin.tv is the easiest way to create live video and show anyone in the world what's happening right now. Using only a laptop, you can share your event, class, party or thoughts, live, to anyone in over 250 countries while they chat in real-time with you and with other viewers. Justin.tv makes it fun, easy and fast to gather and engage with a live audience. One new live video starts each second, and users watch more than 300 million videos every month.

San Francisco, California, Us

Volunteer Position. Worked with a team to remove content in violation of the Justin.tv Terms of Service by monitoring and responding to user reports. Also served as a community figure by often contributing within discussion boards and other areas of support.

Positions Held:August 2010 - December 2010: Photographer and Camera OperatorJanuary 2011 - May 2011: Photographer and Audio OperatorAugust 2011 - December 2011: Photographer and Technical DirectorJanuary 2012 - May 2012: Marketing Staff (Web Assistant, Media Producer and Audience Development)* Developed story ideas for live shows* Filmed numerous shoots at various locations* Operated camera equipment during live shows* Shot and Edited footage using Final Cut Pro* Managed audio during live shows* Worked in teams to accomplish assignments* Developed and executed a marketing plan* Doubled lifetime Youtube viewer counts in four months* Generated a live studio audience for each show* Edited promotional videos for Facebook page* Expanded and managed online social media presence* Wrote web titles and tease descriptions weekly for nine storiesAbout Studio One:Studio One is a live television show produced by the University of North Dakota's Television Center. This show is a one-hour weekly telecase similar to network morning shows. Markets include Minneapolis, Denver, and Winnipeg.

Cottage Grove, Mn, Us

Sports Photographer, Technical Director for School Board Meetings* Video recorded multiple events ranging from sporting events to music performances* Managed video and audio switchers on a live, community television platform* Prepared equipment for mobile shoots* Located voluntary play by play announcers for sporting events

New York, Ny, Us

I worked for Macy's Shoe Repair, a partnership business of Macy's.* Provided assistance to customers* Ticketed and organized multiple different repair orders* Repaired small orders* Interacted with customers to ensure a pleasant experience* Selling products

• Created and edited a bi-weekly entertainment news web series titled, “News and Views”• Strategically expanded the social network fan base for Minneapolis artists managed by 50 Entertainment• Developed a new media marketing strategy for films, products, and artists• Created videos for online contests including Coke Zero, Target, and Converse• Screened calls and consistently communicated with multiple departments

Bachelor'S Degree, Communication

Software Development And Programming

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