Dusty Candland
Staff Software Engineer at Red27 Consulting
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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SeniorDustin Candland is a seasoned software founder and engineering leader with 15+ years helping startups move from idea to product. As Founder and Lead WordPress Speed and Security Engineer at WP Support HQ, he delivers fast, secure managed WordPress hosting and ongoing reliability, while also launching Blown Gasket Creative to help independent mechanics fill their bays with optimized websites. Through Red27 Consulting LLC, he provides fractional CTO services—technical audits, architecture guidance, MVPs, and team enablement—aligning business goals with technology roadmaps. His technical breadth spans Ruby, Go, JavaScript, and Clojure, with relational and NoSQL databases and messaging, used to design scalable systems and de-risk product decisions with prototypes and MVPs. Based in Littleton, Colorado, he combines entrepreneurial grit with hands-on engineering, and in his spare time pursues climbing, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and MX.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (139)
markdown10
tencent10
static-site10
liquid10
site-generator9
azure9
terraform9
ruby9
multiple-languages9
parceljs9
aws9
jekyll9
saas9
blog-engine9
psake9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
candland/underwind
Aug 2019 - Nov 2024
Underscores & TailwindCSS
Contributions:27 PRs, 38 pushes, 26 branches in 5 years 3 months
tailwindtailwindcsstailwind-cssunderscores
candland/11ty-shopify-example
Jun 2019 - Sep 2020
Example site for 11ty, Shopify, StimulusJS
Contributions:10 commits, 6 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 2 months
stimulusjs11tyexample-siteshopify
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