About
Dylan Bowman worked on large language model research within defense contracting, focusing on deployment safety.
Founder at SublingualYC W25
Intro paths
YC
Dylan went through Y Combinator (Winter 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Harj Taggar, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Sublingual's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Dylan can intro founders to Sublingual's investors below.
Sublingual's investors · 1
Co-founders at Sublingual
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Matthew TangCo-Founder and CEO
Experience
- Apollo ResearchMember of Technical Staffcurrent2026 — present
- hud (YC W25)Manager, Evals2026San Francisco, CA
- hud (YC W25)Member of Technical Staff2025San Francisco, CA
- Sublingual AI (YC W25)Co-Founder2025San Francisco, CA
- Assured Information Security (AIS)Research Scientist II2024Rome, New York, United States
- Assured Information Security (AIS)Research Scientist I2023 — 2024
- AmazonSoftware Development Engineer Intern2022Seattle, Washington, United States
Skills & more
TableauLaTeXDatabasesSQLPyTorchREST APIsJavaPython (Programming Language)JavaScriptC++Large Language Models (LLM)3Software Testing3
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Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)ProgrammingMathematicsData StructuresComputer ScienceAlgorithmsStatisticsComputer VisionArtificial Intelligence (AI)Software DevelopmentDeep LearningMachine LearningFrom Dylan's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Dylan Bowman?
- Dylan Bowman worked on large language model research within defense contracting, focusing on deployment safety.
- Where does Dylan Bowman work?
- Dylan Bowman is Founder of Sublingual.
- What companies did Dylan Bowman found?
- Dylan Bowman founded Sublingual.
- Where did Dylan Bowman go to school?
- Dylan Bowman studied at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science); University of Illinois Laboratory High School.
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