Dustin Blanchard
Founding Engineering Lead at Stealth AI Startup
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolDustin Blanchard is a founding engineering lead and product-minded technologist with 11 years of experience building startups and scaling mission-critical platforms, currently leading AI-first engineering in the travel space from Austin. He blends hands-on architecture and full-stack development with deep UX obsession—having taken products from ideation and prototypes through go-to-market for B2B marketplaces, ERP/POS systems, and AI-driven PR software. As a former CTO and Chief Product & Technology Officer, he has hired and led cross-functional teams, managed roadmaps and DevOps, and even stepped in as interim CEO to run budgets, sales, and marketing. His background as a TV and web journalist gives him an edge in storytelling, media relations, and content-led growth that informs product and marketing alignment. Outside work he’s a relentless tinkerer and traveler who draws inspiration from new places and food, fueling a practical curiosity for how things work and how to make them better.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Communications Auditor, Communications, Communications Auditor, Communications at Pontificia Università della Santa CroceUniversity of Missouri
Italian, English
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Github Skills (153)
cms10
python10
range-picker10
django10
django-q10
content-management-system10
django-models10
user-experience10
stripe10
wagtail10
content-management10
flexibility10
database9
highlight9
google-tag-manager9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
albertnadal/ng2-daterange-picker
Oct 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 3 months
datepickerdate-range-pickerlightrange-pickerangular2
CarServ/ng2-cable
Apr 2017 - Apr 2019
Connect your Angular(2/4)/ionic2 application with Rails ActionCable
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes in 1 year 11 months
actioncablerailsionicangularionic2
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