Dustin Brewer
Senior Software Engineer at Earnest
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDustin Brewer is a Senior Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building resilient web applications, APIs, and internet-edge gateways across C#, Go, TypeScript, Lua, and AWS-based infrastructure. He has a strong track record of reducing on-call incidents through testing, CI automation, and reliable tooling—work that included creating Go-based Lambda tooling and hundreds of unit tests to drive production stability. Dustin contributes to open-source developer portals like Backstage (notably the FireHydrant plugin), reflecting his interest in improving developer experience and observability. Comfortable across the full stack, he modernizes legacy systems, authors reusable GitHub Actions and CLIs, and codifies infrastructure with Terraform. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he balances pragmatic engineering with a knack for developer tooling and operational reliability—plus a soft spot for kittens and cycling.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Informatics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Informatics at University of Washington
Github Skills (12)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 1 PR, 6 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Dustin primarily contributed to the FireHydrant plugin for the Backstage platform. Their work involved adding features related to FireHydrant service annotations, including creating hooks, components, and API integration. They implemented testing for the new features and refined the codebase with improvements to query string encoding and code cleanup. Their contributions demonstrate a focus on extending the Backstage platform's functionality.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
mannkind/borg-rclone-autobackup
Apr 2018 - Jul 2022
Easily automate backups using Borg + RClone
Contributions:3 reviews, 19 commits, 5 PRs in 4 years 3 months
borgdockerhome-automationborgbackuprclone
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