Dustin Howett
Engineering Lead at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarDustin Howett is an engineering lead with a decade of experience building iOS and platform software, currently driving teams at Microsoft from Redmond. He progressed from hands-on iOS roles at startups like DailyBooth and Airbnb to lead mobile engineering at Apptimize before moving into senior engineering roles at Microsoft, blending product-focused craftsmanship with people leadership. Dustin is comfortable shipping at both startup pace and enterprise scale, mentoring engineers while guiding architecture and delivery. His background indicates deep mobile expertise paired with modern engineering management practices, and he brings the pragmatic instincts of a former individual contributor to leadership decisions.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
1,635reputation
71kreached
29answers
0questions
iphone
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
xaml10
windows10
vim-plugin10
vim10
look-and-feel10
visual-studio10
netcore10
wpf10
cpp10
portable10
objective-c-runtime10
ecosystem10
linux10
editor10
windows-app-sdk10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
DHowett-MSFT/T
Mar 2016 - May 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
microsoft/libobjc2
Jan 2016 - Jan 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 31 branches in 4 years
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