Dustin Autery
Software Engineering Manager at Tail Light
Garland, Texas, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDustin Autery is a software engineering manager with 11 years of experience shepherding front-end and full-stack teams to deliver scalable, user-focused web and mobile applications. Based in Garland, Texas, he rose through roles from front-end developer to engineering manager at Tail Light, blending hands-on JavaScript, React/React Native, Node, and MongoDB work with team leadership and strategic planning. He’s known for building inclusive, high-performance teams, hiring top talent, and creating clear vision and feedback loops that consistently ship complex projects on tight timelines and budgets. Dustin’s background running his own web studio and early IT/marketing roles gives him a practical product sensibility and strengths in customer-facing delivery and cross-functional collaboration. He emphasizes mentorship and professional growth, while still diving into code to unblock teams and validate technical direction. An engineer-manager who balances executional rigor with a collaborative culture, he quietly leverages his small-business experience to align technical efforts with business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science Information Technology Computer Networking Systems, Information Technology, Computer Networking Systems, Associate of Science Information Technology Computer Networking Systems, Information Technology, Computer Networking Systems at ITT Technical Institute
Github Skills (3)
react3
react-native2
android2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
spacesuitdiver/trivial
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:38 commits, 11 PRs, 21 pushes in 7 days
react-nativereacttrivialandroid
dustinautery/color-picker
Feb 2016 - Sep 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 8 months
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