Dustin Candland
Lead WordPress Speed And Security Engineer Founder at WP Support HQ
Littleton, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolDustin Candland is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with over 16 years of experience building and scaling startup technology from 0 to 1, currently focused on WordPress speed and security through his company WP Support HQ. As a fractional CTO and former CTO of multiple startups, he blends hands-on coding in languages like Ruby, Go, JavaScript, and Clojure with strategic choices in architecture, devops, and product roadmapping to keep teams moving fast as codebases grow. He has a track record of shipping production systems that handle high throughput, winning a patent for beacon security at ROXIMITY, and guiding acquisitions and exits. Comfortable across databases, messaging, and integrations, Dustin excels at balancing business needs with technical trade-offs and enabling teams to deliver reliably. Based in Littleton, Colorado, he’s also an entrepreneurial fixer who values speed as a competitive advantage and brings practical prototyping to de-risk product decisions.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Associates, Graphic Design, Associates, Graphic Design at Westwood College - Denver North
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Github Skills (137)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
candland/underwind
Aug 2019 - Nov 2024
Underscores & TailwindCSS
Contributions:27 PRs, 38 pushes, 26 branches in 5 years 3 months
tailwindtailwindcsstailwind-cssunderscores
candland/11ty-shopify-example
Jun 2019 - Sep 2020
Example site for 11ty, Shopify, StimulusJS
Contributions:10 commits, 6 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 2 months
stimulusjs11tyexample-siteshopify
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