Dustin Alin
Senior Backend Engineer at Octave
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDustin Alin is a Senior Backend Engineer with a decade of experience designing and operating highly scalable, distributed systems for companies from Microsoft to Amazon and now Octave. He specializes in backend and cloud development, with a track record building secure, multi-tenant services and serverless systems that span regions and support critical business features like Prime experiences and Alexa Preview. Dustin combines hands-on implementation—APIs, control planes, and near-real-time notification systems—with security leadership, having authored threat models and driven fixes in collaboration with AWS security teams. Comfortable in fast-changing environments, he’s repeatedly expanded products internationally via reusable infrastructure and championed high availability and low downtime. Based in Seattle and grounded in a Computer Science degree from Duke, he’s an avid learner who balances deep engineering craft with practical product impact.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Duke UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Scarsdale High School
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (8)
dtml8
javascript6
angular6
grid5
grid-layout4
python4
datagrid3
ui-grid1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
dalin92/btre
Jul 2023 - Jul 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
eklavyamirani/DTML.EduBot
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
An educational bot as part of our hackathon working with dtml.org
Contributions:12 commits in 2 days
dtmlbotpython
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