Dustin Kerns
Staff Software Engineer - Edge Connectivity at MachineMetrics
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDustin Kerns is a staff software engineer with 12 years of experience building edge-to-cloud IIoT systems that connect industrial manufacturing equipment to scalable cloud platforms. Based in Seattle, he leads edge connectivity at MachineMetrics after driving greenfield IoT architecture and AWS migrations for 3D Systems, where he owned edge device services, protocol design, and device provisioning for thousands of machines. He combines hands-on firmware and middleware experience with systems-level thinking—having authored proprietary device protocols, MTConnect integrations, and automated CI/release workflows that improved quality and reduced operational cost. A former Marine with logistics leadership experience, he brings disciplined process, cross-functional coordination, and a penchant for practical automation to complex distributed systems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Software Engineering Technology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Software Engineering Technology at Oregon Institute of TechnologyAssociate of Science (A.S.), Associate of Science (A.S.) at Portland Community College
English
Github Skills (34)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Zanion/deepRL
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:30 commits, 16 PRs, 14 pushes in 13 days
kerns-ai-lab/vm
Sep 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:77 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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