Dustin Davis
Postdoctoral Research Scientist at The University of Texas at Austin
Cedar Park, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolDustin Davis is a seasoned software engineer and systems architect with nine years of recent research and development experience, now serving as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at UT Austin. He blends deep C/C++ and systems design expertise with applied cryptography and biometric authentication, having led engineering teams and architected integrated hardware-software solutions in both industry and academia. Dustin has a long history of shipping production control and gateway software—from medical and retail systems to telescope control for the HETDEX project—bringing rare cross-domain fluency in embedded Linux, cloud services, and scientific instrumentation. He pairs rigorous problem-solving and requirement-driven design with mentorship and program management, having managed multi-project engineering groups and corporate fiduciary responsibilities. Based in Cedar Park, Texas, Dustin’s background in astrophysics research and hands-on telescope control software reveals an uncommon fusion of astronomy and low-level systems engineering.
9 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at DallasAstronomy and Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics at The University of Texas at AustinProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
HETDEX/elixer
Apr 2017 - Jan 2023
Contributions:5 releases, 1876 commits, 2528 pushes in 5 years 10 months
phantomamoeba/ast383
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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