Dustin Davidson
Software Development Director, AI Applications
Gallatin, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDustin Davidson is a seasoned software engineering leader and Director of AI Applications with 15+ years of experience building and scaling global teams across healthcare, fintech, and startups. He has overseen $30M+ budgets and led initiatives that drove $100M+ revenue impact, $18M+ in cloud savings, and measurable reliability gains by modernizing cloud, data, and DevOps platforms. Known for creating high-retention cultures, Dustin has built teams from the ground up, mentored 15+ promotees into leadership, and aligned technical OKRs tightly with business outcomes. He combines deep hands-on cloud and data platform expertise (GCP/AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes, Terraform) with pragmatic AI/ML adoption to accelerate product delivery. Based in Gallatin, TN, he brings a rare blend of startup agility and Fortune 500 rigor, having scaled enterprise data services to handle 25PB monthly workloads while maintaining 24/7 operations.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Biology, BS, Biology at University of Tennessee-KnoxvilleBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Austin Peay State UniversityHS, HS, HS, HS at Northeast High School
Github Skills (12)
connect10
python-client10
confluent10
librdkafka10
confluent-cloud10
kafka-python10
producer10
kafka8
python8
prometheus-exporter5
exporter5
prometheus3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dusts66/coding_challenge
Jul 2018 - Nov 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 2 years 4 months
dusts66/Spark_Examples
Jan 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 4 issues in 4 months
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