Dustin Cote
Staff Product Manager at Sustainable Advantages
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDustin Cote is a Staff Product Manager and operator of modern enterprise data systems with 10+ years of experience scaling platforms from early-stage support teams to large, product-led organizations. He helped grow Confluent from 35 to 3,500 people while building its Observability portfolio and launching the widely adopted Confluent Metrics API and multiple third-party integrations. Dustin blends hands-on engineering contributions to projects like Apache Kafka and Confluent connectors with product strategy, having worked across DevOps, backend development, and technical documentation. He now drives observability for durable applications at Temporal while publishing analysis on the business of the clean energy transition through his Sustainable Advantages newsletter. Comfortable translating customer pain into product and operational solutions, he brings a rare mix of field-facing support experience, open-source contributions, and sustainability-focused market insight.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Geoscience, Master of Science (M.S.) Geoscience at University of RochesterBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Clarkson University
Github Skills (28)
confluent10
kafka-connect10
technical-writing10
configuration-management10
kafka10
rs10
jinjava10
jdbc10
java10
javas10
aws10
amazon-s310
configuration-file10
runbook10
ansible10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
confluentinc/cp-ansible
May 2018 - Jan 2019
Ansible playbooks for the Confluent Platform
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:41 commits, 30 PRs, 30 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Dustin primarily focused on configuring and modifying the Confluent Platform Ansible playbooks, specifically targeting the Kafka broker and related components. They made several changes related to environment variables, and integrating configurations, likely to support deployment and management via Ansible. Their work also involved merging branches and reverting changes, indicating involvement in the release process and potentially troubleshooting or adapting to evolving project requirements.
schema-registryksqlconfluent-cloudansiblerest-proxy
confluentinc/cp-docker-images
Jul 2016 - May 2018
[DEPRECATED] Docker images for Confluent Platform.
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:22 commits, 5 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Dustin primarily contributed to the repository by updating documentation files, specifically focusing on the quickstart guide, configuration instructions, and operational guides. Their work included revising existing documentation, adding new content, and correcting typos to improve clarity and accuracy. The changes also involved updating links and examples to reflect the current state of the Confluent Platform Docker images.
kafka-streamsconfluent-clouddockerconfluent-platformdocker-images
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