Dustin Barker
Software Engineer at Meta
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDustin Barker is a seasoned iOS software engineer with 16 years of experience building and leading mobile teams and shipping polished iPhone and iPad products, currently contributing to Instagram at Meta in Seattle. He has held senior engineering and head-of-mobile roles at startups and consumer brands—driving launches like Artsy’s live auctions and the Simple Finance app—while bridging design sensibilities from a BFA with deep engineering chops. Known for strengthening networking and security in widely used open-source projects (notably contributions to AFNetworking’s SSL pinning and response handling), he also has a strong testing and QA background across Ruby and iOS snapshot frameworks. Comfortable at the intersection of product, performance and platform, Dustin combines hands-on implementation with leadership in scaling mobile architectures for both startups and large tech organizations.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Political Science, Political Science at Utrecht UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Queens CollegeBFA Graphic Design, BFA Graphic Design at University of Florida
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Github Skills (23)
objective-c10
spec10
ios10
testing10
test-framework10
networking10
xctest10
ruby10
rubyspec10
snapshot-testing10
test-suite10
test-automation10
cicd9
security9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
facebookarchive/ios-snapshot-test-case
Oct 2013 - Jun 2015
Snapshot view unit tests for iOS
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:57 commits, 19 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Dustin primarily focused on enhancing the testing capabilities of the iOS snapshot testing framework. Their contributions include adding a test target, implementing image comparison tests, and allowing for suffixes in the reference image directory. Furthermore, they set up the demo project within the Travis CI builds, solidifying automated testing and integration practices. The user's work ensures the stability and reliability of the snapshot testing process.
testingunitunit-testsswiftios
AFNetworking/AFNetworking
Aug 2011 - Jun 2013
A delightful networking framework for iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:12 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Dustin primarily focused on improving the security and robustness of the networking framework. Their commits addressed issues related to handling responses with no content, ignoring content types under specific conditions, and adding optional SSL certificate pinning for enhanced security. They also corrected a bug in an example related to SSL pinning mode. The contributions appear to be focused on networking and security enhancements.
tvosnetworkingswiftiosmac-catalyst
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