Dustin Hildebrandt is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable .NET applications and architecting cloud-native infrastructure on Azure from Winnipeg, Canada. He blends hands-on full-stack development with security and reliability engineering—integrating CI/CD security scans, WAFs, and SOC2 controls while leading peak-season performance planning. Dustin has driven migrations from monoliths to microservices, implemented IaC for multi-region scalability and disaster recovery, and helped products through successful acquisitions. An active open-source contributor, he improves UX and backend notifications in projects like Overseerr, demonstrating attention to user-facing polish as well as maintainability. With a B.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science and a minor in Astrophysics, he brings analytical rigor and a systems-level view to complex engineering challenges.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - B.Sc. (Hons), Computer Science, Minor in Astrophysics, Bachelor of Science - B.Sc. (Hons), Computer Science, Minor in Astrophysics at University of Manitoba
Request management and media discovery tool for the Plex ecosystem
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:8 reviews, 5 commits, 8 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Dustin primarily focused on improving the user interface and backend notifications within the Overseerr project. Their contributions include preventing users from receiving auto-approve notifications, dropping deprecated dependencies, and updating React-Spring. Additionally, the user implemented UI enhancements, specifically adding a 'show more/less' feature for studios on the movie details page. These changes indicate a focus on improving user experience and maintaining the project's codebase.
Docker media and home server stack with Docker Compose, Traefik, Google OAuth2, and LetsEncrypt
Contributions:89 commits, 7 PRs, 306 pushes in 2 years
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