<aside> 👋 I'm a software engineer based in Florida in the US with over 15 years of experience in the software industry. For most of my career I was focused as a .Net Developer building backend applications. In recent years I have shifted to more modern frameworks such as React, Next JS, Express and other Node based frameworks.

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Contact

📧 [email protected]

🔗 linkedin.com/in/dylanyoung

👾 github.com/dylanyoung-dev

Blog: https://dylanyoung.dev

Phone: 1 (407) 497 6750

Experience

Technical Director

Valtech, Remote - (Jun 2024 - Present)

• Leveraged extensive presales experience to assist multiple customers in understanding and planning their transition to Sitecore XM Cloud, providing expert guidance on implementation strategies and potential benefits.
• Crafted thought leadership content as a Subject Matter Expert in Sitecore Personalize, generating insightful articles and presentations to educate and inspire the developer community on leveraging personalization technologies effectively.
• Provided ongoing support and mentorship to team members working with Sitecore CDP and Personalize, offering guidance on implementation strategies, best practices, and troubleshooting complex personalization scenarios.

Sr. Product Advocate (Part Time)

Kajoo.ai, Remote - (June 2024 - Present)

• Improved and expanded documentation for Kajoo.ai, focusing on user-friendly explanations and step-by-step guides to enhance product usability and reduce the learning curve for new users. This initiative included carefully selecting and migrating the documentation to Readme, a more accessible and maintainable platform.

Developer Advocate

Sitecore*, Remote – (Dec 2021 - June 2024)*

• Developed and executed a comprehensive content strategy for Sitecore Engagement Cloud, including the creation of impactful videos, insightful blog posts, and engaging social media content to enhance brand awareness and drive customer engagement.
• Implemented a frontend application to allow existing MVPs and internal employees to review potential MVPs. The application was built with Next.JS, React and Typescript. It consumes a .Net application hosted in Azure using Azure SQL.
• Architected and built the Migration Advisor (https://migration.sitecore.com), which is a SPA-based application that helps Sitecore customers/partners find helpful resources for their monolith DXP to their new SaaS composable DXP. The app is built with React, and data is driven from Content Hub One (Sitecore’s Headless CMS). Data metrics are collected with Google Analytics and Sitecore Personalize (CDP) to help track the engagement.
  • https://github.com/sitecore/sitecore-migration-game: An OSS game/wizard application that uses Sitecore Content Hub One (CMS) and Sitecore Personalize (CDP).
• I participated in the Sitecore AI Hackathon, where our team built a chatbot using Azure Open AI. We also incorporated Sitecore Personalize to provide long-term memory and utilized external data to assist the bot in providing context-aware answers.
  • https://sitecore-clippy.vercel.app/: Built on-top of the Developer Portal. Still a work in-progress, and plans to release this application in 2024.
• Created multiple open source projects to help developers getting started with Sitecore Personalize include SDKs, wrappers and example code.
  • https://github.com/dylanyoung-dev/sitecore-engage-sdk-examples: Sitecore CDP/P Engage SDK Examples
  • https://github.com/dylanyoung-dev/cdp-personalize-examples: Sitecore CDP/P in-app asset examples, using the Sitecore CDP Serializer (listed below).
  • https://github.com/dylanyoung-dev/sitecore-cdp-serializer: Sitecore CDP/P Serializer, allowing customers to store their in-app items in source control, and allows customers to migrate those assets between tenants in a common modern DevOps process.

Director of Digital Experience

RDA Corp, Remote - (Jun to Nov 2021)