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    Dylan Bathurst

    Dylan Bathurst

    Sr Staff Frontend @blockchain, Engineer/Product @purse, Head of Engineering @close5 , CEO @rumgr (sold to eBay) • Senior Front-End Engineer @zappos

    Entrepreneur Los Angeles Fort Hays State Unive...
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    Blockchain.com
    Blockchain.com
    Senior Staff Engineer 2019 - Present (almost 7 years)
    Purse
    Purse
    Frontend Engineer 2017 - 2019 (almost 2 years)
    Rumgr
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    Rumgr
    Founder
    Zappos
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    Zappos
    Senior Frontend Engineer 2008 - 2011 (almost 4 years)
    I was responsible all search page functionality on Zappos.com and 6pm.com. Using Javascript, HTML, and CSS to build the front-end user interaction functionality. I worked... more with the back-end search team to build search APIs for allowing the front-end to create AJAX style search pages.

    Frontend Engineer
    I helped build the Zappos "PBZ" (published by Zappos) platform, and implemented several new sites for specific brands. PBZ's were eventually disbanded after Amazon purchase. I then worked on and eventually headed up the front-end search team. Building a better search page framework as well as features such as "Quick View", multi-select functionality, a javascript front-end to increase page load speed.
    Upright
    Upright
    Co-Founder/CEO 2017 (6 months)
    Working with small startups and large companies to help them better understand their marketplace. I help them understand buyer/supplier dynamics, and the metrics they need... more to be tracking. My goal is to help marketplaces beat their chicken and egg problem.

    During this time I learned these additional development technologies:
    - Angular
    - React
    - React Native
    - Ethereum and Web3
    - Geth
    - Serverless
    - Postgres
    - Redshift
    Close5
    Close5
    Head of Engineering 2014 - 2017 (over 2 years)
    As a founding member of Close5 under the eBay umbrella I was initially responsible for all back-end infrastructure and APIs. Using a multitude of AWS services I scaled the... more app from 0 to ~2 mllion users before hiring our first Operations employee. We scaled the back-end team to 6 people and over 11 million users. Technologies I became proficient with in that time were:
    - Elastic Beanstalk
    - Redis (Elasticache)
    - MongoDB
    - Kinesis
    - NodeJS
    - Elastic Load Balancer
    - Swagger
    - Lambda
    - API Gateway
    - Elasticsearch
    - S3
    Rumgr
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    Rumgr
    Co-Founder 2011 - 2014 (about 3 years)
    - Led full-stack development and product development for native mobile app based on talking directly with users. I built various REST APIs, and the website using Node.js,... more Express, Mustache, and HTML5/CSS3. The mobile client was built in Objective C.
    - Secured a series A round of funding led by Tony Hsieh, and used it to fuel growth in our markets and hire marketing and engineering talent.
    - Strategically sold Rumgr to eBay in 2014 in order match our product talent and agile development process with the backing of eBay’s market expertise and growth engine. During the process I migrated our entire tech stack to a more secure and robust architecture in order to comply with eBay PEN testing standards in 2 months.
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    Rumgr
    Employee
    Zappos, Rumgr, Close5, Upright, Purse, Blockchain.com
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    Projects
    Buy With Bitcoin (Chrome Extension)
    Chrome extension connecting Purse.io and Amazon.com
    *, React Js, Google Chrome Extension, Redux · The Buy With Bitcoin button brings the power of the Purse.io marketplace to your Amazon shopping… · More experience. While browsing products on Amazon simply click the Buy With Bitcoin button to add the item to your Purse list. When you post your order, using bitcoin, to the Purse marketplace on Purse.io, an earner will purchase the items for you on Amazon and they'll arrive right to your door.

    React + Redux + Chrome API
    Upright
    Metrics for Marketplaces
    Co Founder, Developer, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon Lambda, Node.js · Build network effects faster with marketplace metrics that matter
    Alex Coleman
    Crystal Chang
    With Crystal Chang, Alex Coleman
    mymarket.place
    How Healthy is Your Marketplace?
    Developer, AngularJS, Amazon Lambda, Amazon API Gateway · I learned about the metrics that truly matter for marketplaces and how to calculate and… · More display them.

    Quick tool to measure your marketplace's health via GMV, Net Revenue, and Take Rate. See how you stack up against the other marketplaces.
    Alex Coleman
    Crystal Chang
    With Crystal Chang, Alex Coleman
    Close5 for Android
    Buying and Selling for Mobile
    back-end dev, Node.js, AWS, MongoDB · Wrote the APIs for client functionality

    Free. Fast. Easy. Sell using just your mobile. Buy from people nearby on Close 5
    Charles Watkins
    Alex Coleman
    Erik Buttram
    With Erik Buttram, Alex Coleman, Charles Watkins
     
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    About
    Achievements

    Co-organized several successful Startup Weekends in Las Vegas and Kansas to help grow the local tech/startup scene.

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Javascript HTML Node.js MongoDB HTML5 & CSS3 Product-Market Fit Product Development AWS React Native AWS Lambda Amazon Kinesis Puppeteer TypeScript React.js Bitcoin Lightning Network
    Locations
    Silicon Valley Santa Monica
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