Dustin Guerrero
Principal Software Engineer at Twilio
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDustin Guerrero is a Principal Software Engineer based in Los Angeles with 11 years building distributed, cloud-native services, primarily at Twilio where he progressed from Software Engineer to Principal. He brings deep systems and performance expertise across Golang, Python, C, and C++, and has a track record improving service reliability and payments systems. Dustin’s background includes embedded systems optimization—where he reduced startup times by up to 30%—and an unusual early-career role as a respiratory therapist, which honed his operational discipline and stakeholder communication. He combines hands-on coding with architectural leadership, mentoring teams through complex cloud migrations and scalable API designs. A UC Riverside computer science graduate, he bridges low-level engineering rigor with modern cloud practices to deliver robust, production-grade systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of California, Riverside
English
Github Skills (64)
kubernetes10
docker10
charts10
helm10
sendgrid9
travis-ci9
storage9
producer9
segment9
k8s9
ceph8
static-site8
etcd8
twilio8
algolia7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Team-Surge/Surge-Client
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:53 commits, 42 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
sendgrid/go-gmime
Mar 2018 - Sep 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 2 reviews, 16 commits in 4 years 6 months
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