Dallas Despain
Software Engineering Manager at Veracity Insurance Solutions, LLC
Farmington, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDallas Despain is a seasoned software engineer and technology leader with 14 years of experience building and modernizing cloud-native platforms and high-performance engineering teams. He has led large system transitions—from scaling a monolithic InsurTech platform into a microservices SaaS to modern cloud workflow automation at enterprise scale—while directly contributing to delivery and DevOps work across Symfony, TypeScript, React, Terraform, and Terragrunt. Dallas excels at recruiting, mentoring, and aligning distributed teams (including cross-border squads) to product-led delivery, having managed up to 15 engineers and boosted throughput and reliability through platform engineering and process improvements. His hands-on consulting work continues to produce repeatable infrastructure IaC, tighter security posture, and improved observability, often delivering dozens of pull requests monthly. Based in Salt Lake City, he pairs practical engineering discipline with a knack for turning operational pain points into resilient revenue-driving systems—once rescuing multimillion-dollar sales days with queuing and reservation designs. He holds dual degrees in Computer Science and Spanish from Utah State University, bringing both technical breadth and clear communication to stakeholder-facing roles.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS BA Computer Science Spanish, BS BA Computer Science Spanish at Utah State UniversityThe University of UtahHigh School Diploma General Studies, High School Diploma General Studies at Brighton high school
Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (19)
stem9
circleci7
drupal7
cli6
golang6
php6
psysh6
symfony5
knife5
symfony-console5
scripting5
behat5
bash4
shell4
prompt4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pandaPowder/myConfigs
Jun 2012 - May 2020
my .ackrc .vimrc .bash_profile, etc....
Contributions:1 release, 12 commits, 2 PRs in 7 years 11 months
vimackrcbashneovimdotfiles
pandaPowder/terramate-aws
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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