# Dustin (@dustycode.dev)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/dustycode.dev
Headline: Full Stack Software Engineer

## About

Senior full stack software engineer with 7+ years of building internal developer platforms,
workflow automation, and enterprise web applications. Experienced in modernizing legacy
systems, reducing operating costs, and improving application performance through optimization
and architectural decisions. Strong background in React, Typescript, NodeJS, and Python.

## Career

- **Senior Full Stack Software Engineer at ZeniMax Online Studios** (Nov 2023 - Jul 2026)
  Full-time · Remote
  \- Architected and led development of in-house production tracking platform that replaced a third-party solution, saving approximately $60,000 annually while delivering workflows tailored to studio needs
  \- Proposed and built proof of concept tool to take a 1-2 week manual process into an automated process that could be completed in a day or 2, which demonstrated enough value to be adopted and expanded by another engineering team
  \- Led design and architecture of React + NodeJS web app that allows all studio employees to easily submit bugs and feature requests for tools used within the company, find documentation, and share PTO schedules with Jira integration, reducing communication barriers and improving cross-team collaboration
  \- Led initiative to get codebases for 4 full stack apps migrated from Perforce to GitHub
  \- Established centralized application monitoring software by implementing a custom NodeJS authentication proxy, reducing incident investigation time
  \- Contributed to Python/QT desktop application used for importing and exporting game assets to and from Autodesk 3D software (Max/Maya)
  \- Contributed to full stack web application for viewing all assets and animations for ESO, allowing anyone in the studio to quickly find an asset and data attributed to it
- **Software Engineer at Ford Motor Company** (Jun 2019 - Oct 2023)
  Full-time · Hybrid
  \- Served as technical lead for team tasked with modernizing quality reporting software in manufacturing plants, prototyping web apps and data pipelines before being installed in assembly lines while mentoring software engineering interns
  \- Introduced Jetpack Compose to FordPass Android application, rebuilding the intro screen
  \- Created a site to streamline internal software engineer technical training classes
  \- Led the development of a project for facilitating Lean Coffee style meetings
  \- Built an internal site automating the onboarding of applications into monitoring tools, like Splunk and Dynatrace

## Skills

### Technical
- Android Development
- Angular
- CI/CD
- Docker
- Git
- Java
- JavaScript
- Jetpack Compose
- Kotlin
- MongoDB
- MySQL
- Node.js
- Python
- Remix
- Spring Framework
- TypeScript
- Astro
- React
### Business
- Agile
### Other
- ArangoDB
- MQTT
- Prisma
- PyQT
- RabbitMQ
- Tanstack Start

## Projects

- **Personal Site** — https://dustycode.dev (Jan 2026 - Present)
  My personal website and blog, always a work in progress. Built with Bun and Astro

## Publications

- Is this thing on? — dustycode.dev (Aug 2026) https://dustycode.dev/blog/is_this_thing_on

## Education

- **Grand Valley State University** — Bsc, Computer Science (Aug 2015 - Apr 2019)
  Minored in Mathematics
  Activities & Societies: Ski & Snowboard Team

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/DustinsCode
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustycode/
- Photography Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/photos.dustycode/