Speaking
Various talks I've given. Boy do I love to yap.
Bio
One-liner
Dylan Martin is an AI product engineer at PostHog, where he led the feature flags team and now works on self-driving software.
Short
Dylan Martin is an AI product engineer working on self-driving software at PostHog. Before that he led the feature flags team, where he wore many product hats and rewrote the evaluation platform from Python into Rust. He’s spent his career at startups like Mercury, Qualtrics, and BRINC. Off the clock he skis, hikes, bikes, lifts heavy things, shops for rare jawnz, and plays jazz piano.
Conference
Dylan Martin is an AI product engineer at PostHog, where he works on self-driving software. Previously, he led the feature flags team, wearing various product and SDK hats while rewriting its evaluation platform from Python into Rust. Before PostHog, Dylan worked across startups including Mercury, Qualtrics, and BRINC, with work spanning robotics, payments, developer tools, and distributed systems. He cares about turning ambitious ideas into reliable software and explaining the tradeoffs involved along the way. Away from work, Dylan skis, hikes, bikes, lifts heavy things, shops for rare jawnz, and plays jazz piano.
Work-adjacent
| Talk | Details |
|---|---|
| From Snakes to Crabs (and what happened after the rewrite!) | Talk at P99 CONF, October 2026. |
| How PostHog uses self-driving to build itself | Talk at AI Tinkerers Seattle, AI Dev Tools Track, September 2026. |
| Going from prompts to self-healing agents in production | Talk at AI Tinkerers Seattle, AI Dev Tools Track, July 2026. |
| From Snakes to Crabs II: Electric Boogaloo | Talk at Rust Demo Night with PostHog and One. |
| From Snakes to Crabs | Talk at Developer Week NYC in June 2026 |
| Deep Work | My first solo talk at Qualtrics, October 2019. |
Just for fun
My friends and I participate in DTL sessions (I was at the original DTL that blew up on Buzzfeed). I've never won "Best Presentation" but I won "Best-Dressed" once.
| Talk | Description |
|---|---|
| American Emigrant | Logistics of immigrating to Canada from the USA. |
| Strongly-typed Pokemon Battles | Using type systems to your advantage in Pokemon Sword. |
| Carefully, He's a Hero | The cost of heroics through Sam Raimi's Spiderman trilogy. |
| Stuxnet: The Little Worm That Could | Overview of one of the most complicated programs ever written. |
| School of Pop | How to write a pop song in 3 minutes or less. |
| Badass Motherfuckers Dressed to Kill | Quentin Tarantino's love affair with the black suit. |