Dustin Bachrach
Senior Vice President, Engineering at United Talent Agency
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDustin Bachrach is a senior technology leader with over 20 years of software development experience and more than a decade building and scaling engineering teams, currently serving as SVP of Engineering at United Talent Agency in Austin. He has a track record of turning acquisition integrations into product success—leading the MediaHound-to-UTA IQ transition and shipping the IQ Insights Hub used across the company. As CTO of MediaHound he cut infrastructure costs dramatically by moving to Kubernetes on AWS and helped launch consumer products that delivered over 10 million recommendations and won Webby awards. Early career work includes platform engineering at Microsoft and ship-ready iOS products as a founder and instructor, demonstrating both deep hands-on expertise and strong mentorship. He contributes to open-source tooling for JSON data modeling, improving converters, bug fixes, and test coverage, showing attention to data integrity and developer ergonomics. Known for blending product-minded engineering with cost-conscious cloud architecture, he excels at turning complex technical challenges into measurable business outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Rice University
Github Skills (7)
data-modeling10
json10
objective-c10
web-framework10
macos10
ios10
unit-testing9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jsonmodel/jsonmodel
Jul 2014 - Nov 2015
Magical Data Modeling Framework for JSON - allows rapid creation of smart data models. You can use it in your iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS apps.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 9 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Dustin made several contributions to improve the JSONModel framework. They added a default JSONValueTransformer for NSNumber to NSDate conversions, enhancing data handling capabilities. The user also refactored the code to optimize data model behavior by only setting properties when they differ from the existing values. In addition, the user addressed a bug related to required property handling. Finally, they added tests and functionality related to array protocol specification.
tvosdata-modelsrapidioscreation
dbachrach/castaway
Jul 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:25 commits in 4 months
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