Summary
Dustin Hotard is a seasoned software engineer and consultant with 13 years of experience designing and delivering scalable web and enterprise systems from Dallas, Texas. He has led architecture and engineering initiatives across industries—telemetry, automotive valuation, e-learning, and direct sales—often rebuilding flagship products and migrating legacy platforms into modern, n-tier C# solutions. Known for driving reliability at scale, Dustin built zero-loss message processing, OLAP reporting platforms, and CI/automated testing practices that materially improved uptime and developer productivity. He combines hands-on coding (PHP, jQuery, C#) with people leadership, having formed and mentored offshore teams and instituted agile processes and code review culture. A frequent speaker and educator, he has also worked with Microsoft’s SmallBasic team to create teaching extensions and promote programming for kids. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, Dustin excels at turning complex business requirements into robust, maintainable software solutions.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Brea High School
Cal Poly Pomona