Dustin Deus
CTO & Co-Founder at WunderGraph
Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolDustin Deus is a seasoned software engineer and co-founder with 12 years of experience building scalable web and distributed systems from the edge to Kubernetes. As CTO of WunderGraph he has driven the technical vision for GraphQL federation and Backend-for-Frontend tooling, translating complex API composition problems into developer-friendly platforms. His background blends full-stack product work with infrastructure engineering—contributions to prominent open-source projects like Terraformer, nats.node and Fastify show deep expertise in infrastructure-as-code, cloud messaging, schema validation and robust testing. Dustin has a track record of shipping production-grade platforms for media, content and smart-city projects, and he often focuses on developer experience improvements that are easy to miss but materially reduce friction. Based in Wuppertal, Germany, he pairs startup leadership with hands-on engineering discipline across Go, Node.js and TypeScript.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and ManagementFachinformatiker in Anwendungsentwicklung Information Technology, Fachinformatiker in Anwendungsentwicklung Information Technology at Berufskolleg am Haspel Wuppertal
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (43)
fastify10
apim10
javascript10
schema-validation10
nat10
testing10
typescript10
nextjs10
terraform10
commercetools10
ajv10
terraformer10
go10
api10
natsio10
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
wundergraph/wundergraph
May 2022 - Jan 2023
WunderGraph is a Backend for Frontend Framework to optimize frontend, fullstack and backend developer workflows through API Composition.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1028 releases, 1210 reviews, 795 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Dustin primarily focused on updating and refactoring example applications and configuration files within the WunderGraph repository. The changes involved modifying TypeScript configuration files (.wundergraph/wundergraph.config.ts), and refactoring example test apps to improve their functionality. The user also added a new feature by allowing a base URL for nextjs applications. Further improvements include fixing imports, updating esbuild, and making the example code more Gitpod-ready.
api-gatewaygrpcserverlessserverless-apiapi-management
fastify/fastify
Sep 2017 - Jun 2021
Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 139 commits, 79 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Dustin primarily focused on enhancing the Fastify web framework by implementing features related to schema validation and content-type parsing. They introduced options for the Ajv schema validator, enabling features like removing additional properties and using defaults. The user also added support for headers in schema validation, alongside the corresponding tests. Furthermore, they refactored request handling and content-type parsing logic.
apihapispeednode-jsjavascript
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