Dylan Horkin Email & Phone Number

Eugene, Or, Us

• Reduced project warm build time from 1 hour to 5 minutes through extensive refactoring and rewriting of build scripts and Dockerfiles• QA Team Lead (5 SDETs, 7 manual QA); managed sprints and task assignments, performed extensive code reviews• Developed Gatling (Scala) based load testing framework, which simulates E2E user flows of thousands of simultaneous users across all areas of functionality• Developed extensive Cypress automated test suites for a half dozen projects, collectively performing hundreds of API and UI tests automatically via Github Actions• Migrated a build system from Ant to Gradle• Built a sample web3 game for customers to demonstrate company’s alpha API, using TypeScript, NextJS, and websockets. Designed to be loosely coupled and extensible.• Tackled tech debt across more than a half dozen different teams & projects, refactoring code for readability / maintainability and reducing duplicated code, and upgrading legacy dependencies across major versions• Developed Slack plugin for requesting, approving, and announcing PTO requests across company• System administrator for company Mattermost server• Self-taught basics of Scala, Golang, React, Vue, Elixir / Phoenix, Hardhat, Solidity, and Ansible in order to maintain a project that had become unstaffed

Eugene, Oregon, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

• Developed Android automation in Espresso / Java• Provided thorough code review feedback via Gerrit / Git• Identified, investigated, and contributed to bug and crash fixes • Researched additional technologies and frameworks that could be helpful for our product• Designed test plans and release sign-off criteria and coordinated with manual testers for efficiency

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Primary UI automation code developer for iOS MSN News app • Contributed to network data-fuzzing tool code• Simplified app deployment process with PowerShell scripting• Identified, investigated, and contributed to bug and crash fixes• Wrote and executed test plans for 4 platforms (Windows, Windows Phone, iOS, and Android)• Collaborated across multiple teams and disciplines

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, In

• Performed extensive testing and daily build verification for News team• Led the test team in bugs discovered • Continued with same team as Microsoft employee after 6 months

Seattle, Wa, Us

• UI developer and tester for DNA-based research game• Game used human players to solve problems which are challenging for computers• Research explored real-world applications of DNA properties

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Developed against an undocumented, in-alpha .NET 3.0 framework • Created peer-to-peer checkers game in C# and Visual Studio • Conducted Windows Meeting Space usability and functional testing

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Taught self C#, SQL, ASP.NET, and programmatic Excel• Designed and developed database visualization application, which included bidirectional sync between app, Excel, and SQL database• Finished ahead of schedule and created an additional ASP.NET implementation• Conducted Windows Vista localization testing

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), English W/ Writing Emphasis