Summary
Dustin Lahr is a Systems Development Engineer II with nine years of experience building and operating web and backend systems, currently focused at Amazon in the Greater Seattle area. He brings hands-on experience across Laravel, Ruby on Rails, serverless AWS migrations, and performance tuning—having sped up JavaScript assets from seconds to milliseconds and migrated services to Lambda and EC2. Dustin has a practical full-stack background from database-backed APIs and dynamic frontends to deployment automation and infrastructure, and he’s comfortable working in Scrum environments with Docker, Git, and CI/CD. His career started in campus and non-profit settings where he built pragmatic tools (including a barcode-based file tracker and a jQuery timesheet) that scaled to hundreds of users, showing a knack for delivering user-focused solutions. Known for blending reliable engineering with a taste for coffee-fueled problem solving, he pairs academic Computer Science training from CSUN with production experience at scale.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at California State University, Northridge