Dustin Blackman
Software Engineer at busbud
Canada
Summary
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RockstarDustin Blackman is a seasoned Software Engineer with 11 years of experience and a Senior Staff Software Development Lead presence on GitHub, based in Canada. He combines hands-on back-end development with a focus on code quality and maintainability, evidenced by significant refactoring work on the Gravebot Discord bot where he reorganized command logic and optimized services. Comfortable shipping practical features, he has updated command behaviors like YouTube and Urban lookups while trimming technical debt. Dustin brings leadership-level engineering judgment without losing the willingness to dive into code, making him effective at improving existing systems. Colleagues can expect a pragmatic problem-solver who balances clean architecture with user-facing functionality.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
nodejs10
javascript10
refactoring10
discord-js10
refactor10
api-design9
api9
apim9
macos6
google-chrome6
selenium6
electron6
python6
webdriver6
pycrypto6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
Gravebot/Gravebot
Jan 2016 - May 2019
An awesome bot for Discord
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 571 commits, 118 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Dustin primarily focused on refactoring the codebase. Their contributions included restructuring code within the `lib/commands` directory, indicating an effort to improve the organization and maintainability of the bot's command logic. They removed and updated services, possibly optimizing the bot's functionality. They also made various updates to the underlying logic of several commands, most notably the `!youtube` and `!urban` commands.
discordbotdiscord-jsdiscord-bot
busbud/tidalwave
Oct 2016 - Sep 2021
An awesomely fast command line, server, and client application for recording and parsing JSON logs
Contributions:2 releases, 113 commits, 12 PRs in 4 years 11 months
command-line-toolcommandline-toolloggingjson-logsparsing
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