Dustin Kendall

About

The engineer who makes
software survive success.

I'm Dustin Kendall, a lead software engineer who has spent the last decade where engineering mistakes cost real money: startups, a large enterprise, a global payments company, an industrial technology supplier.

The work I get pulled into is the work that has to hold: securing applications in production, handling real incidents with thousands of customers affected, and modeling and designing secure APIs in regulated environments, the kind where a mistake becomes a finding.

The numbers back it up: a cloud bill cut by ~90%, a 99.99% uptime SLA held through a database migration, an API platform taking 10x the traffic without flinching. That experience sits behind every engagement on this site, and it's why founders bring me the apps they built fast and now need to last.

Purdue-trained (BS, Electrical Engineering), AWS-certified, and the holder of a patent for an industrial data-transfer protocol. I lead multiple teams day-to-day and coach engineers across an entire organization on API design. When I look at your app, you get the reviewer rather than a report template.

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Career highlights

Results from a career at enterprise scale

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  • ~90% cloud cost reduction on core services at a large enterprise
  • 10x peak throughput on a client-facing API platform
  • 99.99% uptime SLA held through a global database migration
  • 48% drop in escalated complaints after resolving a critical compliance finding on a customer-facing platform

Experience

Where the track record comes from

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  1. 2022 — Present

    Lead Software Engineer

    A large enterprise

    • Resolved a critical compliance finding on a customer-facing platform; escalated complaints fell 48%
    • Cut cloud costs ~90% on rearchitected core services; ~$12K/month more saved through right-sizing
    • Delivered 10x peak throughput on a client-facing platform; availability up from 99.9% to 99.95%
    • Coaches engineers across the organization on API modeling and design; leads multiple teams

  2. 2022 — 2022

    Software Engineer

    A global payments technology company

    • Led the Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migration of 13 applications on a nine-developer team
    • Held a 99.99% uptime SLA through migration with a custom data-layer failover
    • Delivered 30x query performance gains on the core authorization service
    • Raised unit-test coverage from ~60% to ~95% on the highest-traffic application

  3. 2018 — 2021

    Full-Stack Software Engineer

    A global automotive & industrial technology supplier

    • Consolidated seven branded product lines (APIs, iOS, and Android) into single multi-tenant platforms
    • Designed a patented protocol for storing and transferring industrial IoT test data
    • Improved a Java client’s throughput 100x with concurrency-safe refactoring
    • Raised test coverage from ~30% to ~90% across client applications

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