Summary
Dustin Carlson is a Software Engineering Manager in Austin with 12 years of experience building backend-focused web applications and leading teams at scale. He progressed from full-stack and LAMP-era engineering to senior roles at Apple, specializing in PHP/Laravel, Vue.js, MySQL, Docker and Kubernetes while maintaining a strong emphasis on accessible, high-quality code. Dustin excels across the full development lifecycle—designing, coding, testing, and deploying custom applications—and brings hands-on experience with CI/CD and containerized production environments. He has a track record of turning PSD-to-production front-end builds and complex API integrations into reliable products, and he pairs technical depth with practical project management. Colleagues rely on him to balance developer ergonomics and operational reliability when shipping features. Outside core stacks, he’s comfortable translating legacy systems into modern architectures and mentoring engineers through that transition.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer