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<a href="/"><span>Dylan Irlbeck</span></a>
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<h1>Highlights</h1>
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<p>What I've been up to recently.</p>
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<b>September 2023</b>:
<a
href="https://rollcall.com/2023/09/15/ai-could-reshape-congress-hackathon-2023/"
>Gave a lightning talk</a
>
at the fifth annual Congressional Hackathon on using generative AI
to generate bill summaries on
<a href="https://congress.gov">Congres.gov</a> (<a
href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17Pg7KLomWk1JT8CcTorKX0l57lRCYBMs/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=103936887430558388092&rtpof=true&sd=true"
>slides</a
>). My idea was listed as a top action item by the organizers, which
include bipartisan House leaders and the Chief Administrator's
Office (CAO), in their
<a
href="https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/Hackathon-Report-2023.pdf"
>final hackathon report</a
>.
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<b>July 2023</b>: Secured a fellowship placement with the
<a href="https://www.finance.senate.gov/"
>Senate Finance Committee</a
>
under Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR). As a fellow, I hope to work on
modernizing service delivery at essential agencies and social
benefits programs under Finance's jurisdiction, including IRS,
Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, and unemployment insurance.
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<b>June 2023</b>:
<a href="https://www.techcongress.io/2023-fellows"
>Started as a Congressional Innovation Fellow</a
>
at TechCongress. Attended the
<a href="https://cybercivildefensesummit.org/"
>Cyber Civil Defense Summit</a
>, hosted by UC Berkeley and Craig Newmark Philanthropies.
</li>
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<b>February 2023</b>: Served as a mentor at
<a
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230304205635/https://hackillinois.org/mentors"
>HackIllinois 2023</a
>, UIUC's first in-person hackathon since 2020. I specifically
offered support with web development, backend configuration and
deployment, and integrating with external APIs.
</li>
<li>
<b>January 2023</b>: Reviewed applications for
<a href="https://www.codingitforward.com/fellowships"
>Coding it Forward's 2023 fellowships</a
>.
</li>
<li>
<b>October 2022</b>: Switched from a product-centered, application
team (specifically, one that supported Flexport warehouses and other
consolidation products) to a domain-centered, platform team. I'm
currently focused on transitioning Flexport from a messy, legacy
system for modeling shipment execution to a new, domain-driven
system.
</li>
<li>
<b>September 2022</b>: Mentored an outstanding software engineering
intern and wrote a blog post highlighting the projects of several
others:
<a
href="https://flexport.engineering/what-the-interns-shipped-3490721ed6fe"
>What The Interns Shipped</a
>.
</li>
<li>
<b>June 2022</b>: Released <code>notion-backup-ocaml</code> (<a
href="/writing/notion-backup-ocaml.html"
>post</a
>).
</li>
<li>
<b>April 2022</b>: Attended the
<a href="https://disinfo2022.com/"
>Disinformation And The Erosion of Democracy conference</a
>, hosted at the University of Chicago.
</li>
<li>
<b>March 2022</b>: Finished the
<a
href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hGiZ8oxfoaFIgnMNbozRjwHBsX9Qqau1N9VmOrhP0yg/edit"
>Ethics, Public Policy, and Technological Change</a
>
evening course. Hosted by Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami, and Jeremy M.
Weinstein (the authors of
<a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/09/books/review/system-error-rob-reich-mehran-sahami-jeremy-weinstein.html"
><i
>System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can
Reboot</i
></a
>), the course prompted me to think about theories of change at my
company in particular and for the tech industry in general.
</li>
<li>
<b>January 2022</b>: Reviewed dozens of applications for
<a
href="https://blog.codingitforward.com/introducing-the-2022-coding-it-forward-fellows-b14bac95c58f"
>Coding it Forward's 2022 fellowship cohort</a
>. Contributed six ethics-themed problems to UIUC's
<a href="https://www.cs124.org/"
>CS 124: Introduction to Computer Science</a
>
course, spanning topics like personalized ads and marketing,
automation and job loss, data privacy, and surveillance technology;
three of those problems were formally integrated into the
curriculum. (My collaboators and I also
<a
href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/16o1pKFm_7CjuhQ3uCQ7EeD0Pd9sCKp5P/edit"
>authored a paper</a
>
about our work!)
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<li>
<b>August 2021</b>: Started as a full-time software engineer at
<a href="https://www.flexport.com/">Flexport</a>.
</li>
<li>
<b>May 2021</b>: Graduated from the
<a href="https://cs.illinois.edu/"
>University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign</a
>
(UIUC). Started as a
<a href="https://www.codingitforward.com/summer-fellowships"
>Civic Digital Fellow</a
>
at the General Services Administration, focused on
<a
href="https://18f.gsa.gov/2021/07/27/the_tts_handbook_a_21st-century_approach_to_internal_documentation/"
>improving internal documentation systems</a
>. I also
<a
href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jnpc5GII0CPebpW-pjWXQaYemgTZtUUlRJl7APVpkQ8/edit"
>gave a talk</a
>
at the
<a href="https://pitlab.stanford.edu/conference"
>PIT Student Leaders Conference</a
>
about
<a
href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tvMSVJ_1jDU-5KrRzoI-ewfg77SnLTXn_OG4vy2sirM/edit"
>my efforts to push</a
>
for more robust computing ethics education at Illinois.
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<li>
<b>April 2021</b>: Built
<a href="https://dylanirlbeck.github.io/ethical-moderation/"
>Ethical Moderation</a
>, a programming project designed to teach students about the
techniques and ethical considerations of automated content
moderation through hands-on implementation. This project was crated
during
<a href="https://www.hackillinois.org/">HackIllinois 2021</a>, the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's annual hackathon.
</li>
<li>
<b>November 2020</b>: Gave a talk to SIGPLAN, a student group at the
University of Illinois for students interested in programming
languages, about some of the
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SntggdbJ_Is"
>lessons I learned building open-source software</a
>.
</li>
<li>
<b>April 2020</b>: Released
<a href="https://github.com/dylanirlbeck/tailwind-ppx"
>tailwind-ppx</a
>, a Reason/OCaml Pre-Processor eXtension (PPX) that validates your
Tailwind CSS classes at <i>compile-time</i>; the project would
eventually hit 150 stars on GitHub. In the same month, I also gave a
<a href="https://youtu.be/D_ybZoJKQSE"
>talk about Functional Programming, React, and Compilers in
ReasonML</a
>
at the Chicago ReasonML Meetup.
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